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.
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
Business establishments it regulates, foreign trade partners, and academic and educational organizations were among those outside the federal government who met with USDA’s food safety executives so far this
Federal prison is likely in the future for another food industry executive.
Memet Beqiri, the owner of Connecticutt’s New England Meat Packing LLC in Staford Springs, will be sentenced
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has tracked state outbreaks of Hepatitis A for the last three years, and it is not getting any prettier.
The USDA’s quarterly report of enforcement activities by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is topped off by the criminal conviction of Antillio Graniello.
The U.S. District
Tip Top Poultry, Inc., in Rockmart, GA. has recalled approximately 135,810 pounds of fully cooked poultry products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S.
Two-way trade between the United States and the micro-state of San Marino is a mere $7 million a year. And a scant amount of that involves any food or agricultural
Opinion
Usually, my way of dealing with summer heat is to not move around much during the day. This summer, I’ve broken from my routine by actually traveling to
The job of determining if five poultry companies knowingly hired undocumented aliens is up to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi. Immigration officials, however, claim they
