Until Food Safety News Managing Editor Coral Beach called me recently to talk about the relationship between the FDA’s budget and that of the entire federal government, it had been a while since I had
Continue Reading Letter from the Editor: Food safety’s budgetDan Flynn
Editor Dan Flynn is a Northern Colorado-based writer and editor with more more than 15 years of food safety experience. As a public affairs professional, he worked with government and regulatory agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. His career as a journalist included working for newspapers throughout the West, from the Black Hills to Seattle. His on-scene reporting on the collapse of the Idaho’s Teton Dam and the suicide bombing at Washington State University’s Perham Hall was carried by newspapers around the world and was recognized both times regionally by the Associated Press for Best Reporting on a Deadline. Most of the disasters he attends these days involve food illnesses.
USDA offers to close ‘Product of USA’ loophole, but not until 2026
Making an election-year promise that does not have to become a reality until well after the voting isn’t new. Since Congress surrendered Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling in a trade war with Canada and Mexico…
Continue Reading USDA offers to close ‘Product of USA’ loophole, but not until 2026Bill for direct sales of raw milk hasn’t yet gone anywhere in Colorado
Every so often, somebody tries to make a partisan issue about raw milk. That happened again when Colorado was supposed to be “poised to defy this growing partisan divide” with a bill to allow direct…
Continue Reading Bill for direct sales of raw milk hasn’t yet gone anywhere in ColoradoAmos Miller wants to cross state lines to sell his Pennsylvania-made raw milk
It’s been said that recent outbreaks of illness in the United States are raising renewed concerns about selling and consuming raw milk and raw milk products.
One defense is a federal law prohibiting raw milk…
Continue Reading Amos Miller wants to cross state lines to sell his Pennsylvania-made raw milkIncreased poultry line speeds will likely continue with USDA extensions
The dismissed federal case of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) v. Sonny Perdue is returning. The U.S. District Court for Northern California has scheduled a case management conference for June 13.
Around…
Continue Reading Increased poultry line speeds will likely continue with USDA extensionsThe ‘Glove Guy’ calls upon his industry to ban the sale of vinyl gloves
Steve Ardagh is the founder and CEO of Eagle Protect, a leading glove company. He is known as “The Glove Guy” for his food safety leadership.
In the glove world, the toxic chemical of the…
Continue Reading The ‘Glove Guy’ calls upon his industry to ban the sale of vinyl glovesNew York State is latest to threaten removal of harmful food additives
The movement to ban certain additives in food or beverages that started last year in California and spread this year first to Illinois has now reached as far as the Empire State.
Two New York…
Continue Reading New York State is latest to threaten removal of harmful food additivesTossed line speed case is coming back
The federal case of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) v. Sonny Perdue was dismissed in late February after hanging around for four years.
HSUS and other animal activists, on Feb. 25, 2020…
Continue Reading Tossed line speed case is coming backState anti-cruelty enforcement doesn’t need to be bound by federal authority, prosecutors say
An organization for all prosecutors, including appointed and elected and their deputies and assistants, supports the pending Animal Partisan petition. The Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA) is a private non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C.…
Continue Reading State anti-cruelty enforcement doesn’t need to be bound by federal authority, prosecutors sayJudge invites Amos Miller to become Pennsylvania’s 115th licensed raw milk dairy
Late Friday, a state judge gave Pennsylvania farmer Amos Miller an easy exit ramp to his dispute with the Agriculture Department.
Judge Thomas Sponaugle’s March 1 order says that all Miller must do to resolve…
Continue Reading Judge invites Amos Miller to become Pennsylvania’s 115th licensed raw milk dairy