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.
When meat is outlawed — in this case fatty livers of geese or ducks — only outlaws will eat meat. Foodies are hoarding all the fatty geese or duck livers they can
Our web guru sent me a report on our analytics with numbers that seemed impressive enough to me, and then I realized it was only for the Washington D.C.
Practicing a little food safety while traversing South Dakota to visit Mount Rushmore just got easier. The state health department has now put restaurant scores online along with grades for
SPAM®, the canned meat Monty Python sang about and the meat product whose name is now used to label unwanted bulk e-mail messages, is about to celebrate its 75th birthday.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has entered the poultry inspection debate with a new scientific opinion on “the most relevant biological hazards to public health.” EFSA says Europe’s
Before horses can again be slaughtered in the United States for human consumption, USDA is going to have to get a harness on one food safety issue that all sides
I’ll admit I found the past week plenty confusing. I read somewhere that Chief Justice Roberts had one of the those epileptic seizures, fried his brain and ended up
It’s not really going down like the plot of “Braveheart,” but the coming 2014 on Scottish Independence is already having large ramifications on food safety regulation in the United
Those plain-speaking public service announcements warning consumers about foodborne illnesses and promoting food safety practices are gearing up for another summer run starting just before the 4th of July. The
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) would prefer we all adopt the vegan lifestyle, but knowing a lot of us cannot kick our “meat addictions,” the organization decided
A House committee vote may have closed the barn door before horse slaughter will ever be resumed in the United States. The powerful Appropriations Committee has by voice vote agreed
