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.
The School Nutrition Association (SNA) is the organization that oversees state and local school lunch programs. It has about 50,000 members from every school district in the country. New
“Consumer curiosity” is not enough of a reason to expand the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) law to include a requirement for companies to detail where various production steps occurred.
A Vermont dairy farm has promised to stop selling cows and bull calves for human food that contain illegal drug residues in violation of federal law. The promise not to
Fines and probationary sentences for selling uninspected meat products top the enforcement report for the last quarter of enforcement activity by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Services (FSIS). USDA’
The federal government has sealed some recent proceedings involving defendant Mary Wilkerson in the criminal case against four former Peanut Corporation of America executives. The former quality control manger for
Everybody in the federal government knows that if you have bad news to announce, the best time to release it is on a Friday afternoon after most in Congress are
Four more rare hepatitis A virus cases in the United States were linked over the weekend to Turkish-grown pomegranate seeds by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The Houston area restaurant closed down by health officials on June 25 investigating reports of foodborne illness has since passed inspection, but it’s unclear whether it has reopened. In
In the years since man landed on the Moon, there been one solution whenever there has been a true food safety crisis on Earth: HASSUP. It is the Mount Rushmore
Sugary drinks and junk food are out, while flavored water with no calories and fruit cups are in. At least that’s the “Smart Snacks in School” rule USDA-promulgated Thursday
A Minnesota dairy farm’s raw milk is being blamed for six illnesses, including three that have been laboratory confirmed as Campylobacter jejuni bacteria, according to state epidemiologists. The outbreak
