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.
Over the past 62 years, Congress has approved 12 farm bills that have become increasingly more complicated and politically sensitive in recent years, resulting in delayed enactment, extensions, insufficient votes to pass on the floor of a chamber, and presidential vetoes.
Ninety-five years ago, Sir Winston Churchill wrote:
"We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium."
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for canned chicken Vienna-style sausages that were illegally imported from Jamaica, a country that
Sodium reduction targets are being used to address excessive sodium intake in the U.S. On average, current consumption is almost 50 percent above the recommended limit.
We have reached a point where there are very few treatment alternatives left for some bacterial infections – including some caused by foodborne bacteria.
Just last week, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service asked for public comments on yet another GMO. It wants input about a petition to deregulate a type of soybean, developed using genetic engineering to control certain lepidopteran pests.
