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.
Despite a tough new food safety law and more than a half million spent annually on inspections and lab work, Georgia is not achieving the food safety improvement at the
Galactooligosaccharides (GOS) is a “highly pure food grade powder derived from milk lactose” with uses including being an ingredient in dietary supplements for kids. Since as early as May 10,
With three years of experience in the information wars over raw milk under its belt, a largely academic group has decided to enter the legislative area with its own 12-page
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
