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 leads editorial direction and covers foodborne illness policy.
Raw Farms LLC in Fresno, CA, formerly known as Organic Pastures, serves the largest raw milk markets in the county. It is no surprise that multiple batches of Raw Farms
Ever since federal penalties totaling $1.5 million were imposed late last year on 13 meat plants contracting in eight states with Packers Sanitation Services Inc. for employing children in
Fifty-five adults in. the United States were stricken with human bird flu this year, and now a child has become the latest victim of the avian virus.
California has identified
Two dozen Members of Congress, led by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, are demanding the Food and Drug Administration ban the carcinogenic food dye FD&C Red No. 3, known as
It’s who replaces who season in Washington D.C. It happens whenever one party beats the other in presidential elections. Food safety advocates are watching these changes with rapt
U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-MI, introduced the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act on Nov. 18. It includes $39 billion in new resources
When it comes to the Salmonella rule for poultry the, public has wanted more time for comments and more meeting time with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. Now
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has signed an agreement with Alveo Technologies to develop a handheld avian flu molecular diagnostic for humans that returns results in 30-45 minutes
RFK Jr., a lawyer-politician, could replace lawyer-politician Xavier Becerra as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Or RFK Jr could be the next Secretary of Agriculture, replacing Tom Vilsack, a
Human bird flu has hospitalized a Canadian teenager at British Columbia Children’s Hospital. He is the first person in Canada to test positive for the bird flu virus.
The
Politics and pinball do sometimes have a lot in common. Both can produce surprising and unexpected results. Those lights and metal balls that pinball was known for before the digital
A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that some dairy farm employees showed signs of infection, even when they didn’t report feeling sick. The
