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 federal government of Canada under Prime Minister Stephen Harper of the Conservative Party is pushing for a tough new food safety law with greater penalties for violators and more
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has charted a course for fighting obesity that does not – at least at the outset – depend upon public opinion. That’s good for him because
Just in time for the Queen’s Jubilee, four regions of England are reporting outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis. The counties of North East, Yorkshire, West Midlands and East Midlands together have
Iowa State University’s government-funded Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratory knew that laying eggs produced by DeCoster Farms were likely contaminated with Salmonella months before more than half a billion eggs from
Alcohol and tobacco have both been the subject of a social-political war in the United States. We went from one extreme to another on the spectrum of alcohol regulation, even
Over the past two months, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a series of warning letters to companies citing food safety violations. The following is a
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) cannot be called “corn sugar,” the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has determined.
A citizen’s petition filed with FDA by the Washington D.
For a second consecutive year, the number of incidents involving food safety in the United Kingdom increased in 2011, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) reports.
Tim J. Smith, the agency’
The 73-year-old owner of Ontario Livestock Sales and 7 employees must appear in a California court July 20 to face a total of 21 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty stemming
Movement of a little radioactivity in migrating Bluefin tuna might be a first, but it is not a threat to food safety.
Researchers from Stony Brook University’s School of
With so many state lawmakers willing to throw out the rulebook when it comes to cottage foods, the Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) has decided it’s time
