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.
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has acknowledged two more petitions and assigned them for review.
The first came in on Apr 9, 2024, and requests that FSIS
The USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) petition on behalf of Perdue Farms LLC filed March 16, 2023, has gained many comments.
The petition requests that FSIS conduct rule-making
The Illinois Senate has passed SB2637 over to the House. It would ban certain food additives.
The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act would, if enacted by the House, ban foods
Long definitions exist for the Farm Bill. Here are a couple:
“In the United States, the farm bill is a comprehensive omnibus bill that is the federal government’s primary
In the month after H5N1, bird flu spread to more humans, especially dairy cow herds, more experts in the United States are focusing more attention on the issue.
It was
The 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals was scheduled to hear that five-year habeas corpus motion from Stewart Parnell but pulled it back.
The second highest court in the land promises
About 10 days ago, after a second human case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu was announced, the Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (CDC) reworked its markup on the issue,
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Child labor and food fraud are food manufacturing activities that don’t bode well for food safety.
Food fraud comes and goes, but child labor just continues to build,
The Lancaster judge overseeing the Amos Miller civil trial case has decided not to explicitly restrict the Amish farmer’s out-of-state sales, saying he won’t hold the ambiguous nature
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture v. Amos and Rebecca Miller is advancing in the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
In the latest round of arguments, the attorneys for
The Colorado General Assembly has its own routines. One allows a bill to change its spots.
Take SB24-026, for example. It was one of the first bills heard during the
The Veterinary Association for Farm Animal Welfare (VAFAW), a nonprofit organization, has submitted lengthy comments to the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) about Animal Partisan ’s petition that was
