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.
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s new regulatory system for market hogs is a direct descendant of the food safety reforms first put in place after the
The E. coli outbreak caused by ground Bison is over.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called the outbreak over on Sept.13, 2019.
It ended after
With the deadline approaching, new safety rules for truck drivers, including definitions for agricultural commodities are not getting much public feedback.
The deadline for comments is Sept. 27, 2019, and
Opinion
Foodborne illnesses are not generally considered to be “highly contagious.” There are exceptions of course. Children in close contact can give each other E. coli infections.
But generally speaking,
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) wants something done about confusing date labels that contribute to food waste.
GAO recommends the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Serice (FSIS)
It was just 18 days ago that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned producers about the salmonella outbreak involving imported papayas. FDA said the industry needs to improve practices
Tree nuts, including coconuts, are classified as “major allergens” under the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act of 2004 (FALCPA).
But a campaign is now underway to get coconuts
The 30th month of state and local Hepatitis A outbreaks is in the books with no end in sight. And while food and water contamination is often the thing that
Opinion
Agricultural media in this country is pretty good. Some argue that it once was better when farm-state daily newspapers staffed Washinton D.C. bureaus. But that was another day,
Philadelphia, a city already dealing with one public health crisis, now must battle an E. coli outbreak.
As many as 14 new E. coli infections in Philadelphia may involve ” shared
Summer is ending with more than 1,000 people infected with Salmonella because of contamination by backyard poultry flocks. All but one of the 50 states has backyard flock outbreaks.
Back in the day, that being before 2015, Canadian politics made much of minor fluxations in numbers of staff assigned to food safety.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) was
