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 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
USDA’s public calendar for the agency’s four top food safety officials covering the month of March is again available on the Food Safety and Inspection Service’s website.
Before we begin, here’s a quick history lesson for those age 40 and under.
Watergate was the 1972 political scandal stemming from the June break-in at the Democratic National
The “public calendar” that discloses meetings U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policy makers have with persons outside the executive branch of government is a little slow in taking
USDA’s top food safety officials continued to do a balancing act when it came to who got face time with them during the first quarter of 2012. The Food
About 1 in 4 of the nearly one million physicians in the U.S. still belong to the American Medical Association, but at its 161st House of Delegates meeting in
