Veteran journalist with 15+ years covering food safety. Dan has reported for newspapers across the West and earned Associated Press recognition for deadline reporting. At FSN, he serves as Senior Editor and covers foodborne illness policy.
Safety guidelines used in the United States might have prevented the E. coli O1157:H7 petting zoo outbreaks now underway in England and Canada, says an expert on the disease.
The 27 states that operate their own meat and poultry inspection for meat and poultry sold within a single state are about to get new markets for their products.
The
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
Some outbreaks are wakeup calls for consumers. After Jack-in-Box, the public was associating
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on Sept. 15th published a list of retailers that might have received one of the
When the largest ground beef recalls of the year involve antibiotic-resistant Salmonella strains and the largest E. coli O157:H7 recall is for raw cookie dough, maybe a story about
Last Mother’s Day, 14-year old Alex Roerick from New Mexico ate beef shish kabobs at his Grandmother’s house in Colorado.
During June, Bonna Cannon served beef products to
Editor’s Note: This is the third installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks. After many outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7, usually associated with a recall
Simultaneous outbreaks killing people might sound like a stretch for a Hollywood script, but it is all too real for the 6.3 million people of Papua New Guinea.
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Canada is taking a big step in food safety.
The federal government in Ottawa has decided to implement all 57 recommendations made by an independent investigation into an outbreak of
A mid-summer Salmonella outbreak that sickened at least 124 people across the country probably was due to contaminated shredded lettuce.
At least that’s the opinion of William Keene, senior
A new policy to give the public lists of retailers who bought recalled beef, pork, and poultry is on the radar screen at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
While it did not get enough attention in the United States, the Walkerton
