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.
A new cottage food bill exempting Colorado small poultry producers from inspections — including safety inspections — is moving forward, having passed the state Senate. Senate Bill (SB) 16-058, now before the
State statutes making it impossible to get in and out of animal confinement areas without breaking the law are being challenged in at least four federal courts around the country.
Mike Taylor has chosen the time and day for his departure for a second time from government. His friends and associates received his personal email at 8:35 a.m.
A law permitting shared animal ownership agreements as the legal vessel for consuming raw milk has been singed into law in West Virginia by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin. Last year,
A producer of so-called cage-free eggs, which had to suspend operations in December and then recall eggs that were associated with Salmonella Enteritis illnesses in January, has now come in
Coral Beach, our new managing editor, reminded me this week that back in the day of working for daily newspapers that actually involved the use of ink and paper, there
When a business is found responsible for sickening people with a foodborne illness, the new normal is the filing of criminal charges. The latest to find that out is Delaware’
U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer has sentenced 79-year old Robert W. Singleton to a “custodial term” of three months to be followed by one year of supervised
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) says there are no outstanding issues remaining over a recently released 2014 audit by U.S. officials of Canada’s meat, poultry, and egg
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is demanding Canada comply with recommendations from an audit of the country’s food safety for meat, poultry and eggs or it’
USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued its first-quarter report for the federal fiscal year and it includes some red marks for big meat plants regarding animal
Sentencing continues tomorrow in the criminal prosecution of the four men whose scheme to circumvent USDA inspection in 2013 caused diseased cattle to end up as human food. The owner
