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.
I worked with a guy once who taught me that for every problem, there was a quote from Benito Mussolini, Italy’s dictator for 21 long years. My former associate,
UPDATE: Since originally published this morning, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) public affairs staff have provided Food Safety News with copies of the applications for equine inspection
For the first time since former Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed a bill in 2010 to legalize the sale of unpasteurized milk in America’s dairy state, proponents in Wisconsin are
The Clifton, NJ-based Butterfly Bakery and owner Brenda Isaac are subjects of a permanent injunction signed by federal Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh that essentially puts them out of business until
Liability for foodborne illnesses caused by chili or soup cook-offs in Minnesota will be transferred to the consumer from the community-based nonprofit organizations that sponsor such events if two lawmakers
Nebraska, Arkansas, and Tennessee today are holding legislative hearings on bills that supporters say protect farms and opponents say prevent people from being effective whistleblowers when collecting evidence of animal
The government and the four accused executives associated with the now defunct Peanut Corporation of America have agreed that the case they are involved in is complex and the ticking
Why am I not surprised with the snarky comments made around the anniversary of Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” campaign? It was entirely predictable that if Mrs. Obama celebrated
From its headquarters on Baltimore harbor, the 15-year-old Center for Biosecurity of UPMC looks out on the historic Coast Guard Cutter Taney, the last ship afloat to have immediately fought
For the fourth year in a row, attempts in the Iowa General Assembly to make legal on- the- farm sales of unpasteurized milk and milk products have ended in failure.
The year before USDA’s new groundbreaking non-O157 E. coli policy went into effect, the agency went back to America’s feedlots to find out just how prevalent six new
