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.
In what is being called a Christmas gift, shelling of this year’s crop of Valencia peanuts can begin tomorrow in Portales, NM. Sunland Inc., the nation’s largest processor
It was while doing my time in academia that I was first introduced to zero based budgeting. We learned in a political science class on government finance that the new
Big Salmon won’t harm the environment, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday. It was good news for AquaBounty, the company seeking approval for the first
It’s possible USDA might like getting told by a federal judge that it must provide equine inspection services to Valley Meat Co. in Roswell, NM. That way, it couldn’
The family-owned Hudson Farm that contracts with Perdue Farms Inc. to raise chickens for the Perdue brand on Maryland’s Eastern Shore is not in violation of the federal Clean
Everyone knows about the food safety rules held up by “oh-eye-rah,” or as it is formally known at the White House, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). But
In the long history of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), there have been plenty of issues to protest. I think it was those “fish sticks” we got in Catholic
A new report published by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor questions whether inspection of restaurants and other retail food establishments are doing enough to prevent foodborne illness in the Bayou State.
Raw milk caused an undetermined number of illnesses before being removed from store shelves last weekend in southeast Pennsylvania. Those sickened suffered from severe gastrointestinal symptoms after drinking raw milk.
Brazil continues to downplay its first and belated report of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease, and its strategy may be working. Except for Japan, Brazil’s 2010
Raw milk produced by the Kimberton Farms Dairy and distributed by the four-store Kimberton Whole Foods is making people sick with “severe gastro enteric symptoms,” Pennsylvania’s Chester County Health
Enough beef to feed one million Americans for a year has been imported from Brazil without the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) mitigations that are supposed to be applied to countries
