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.
With the second anniversary of the BP oil spill fast approaching, attention is once again returning to the damaged Gulf environment, especially to its greatly diminished oyster production.
The worst
Transportation, terrorism and tickets have been among the top concerns for planners of London 2012, the summer Olympic Games that begin in just 120 days.
But now they are turning
Ben England and Rick Quinn, whose clients leap over regulatory barriers with help from the bevy of consultants and attorneys at their aptly named FDAImports.com, are not mincing their
Editor’s Note: In the winter of 1924-25, oysters exposed to polluted water were responsible for a typhoid fever epidemic that spread to New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
Criminal codes in Iowa and Utah were used this year to keep secrets on factory farms by threatening jail time for anyone working undercover and taking pictures or video of
Food safety is ultimately based on reasonable decisions that flow from science.
It’s probably not going to go well if we turn to electronic mob rule where only one
UPDATE: —USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) made contact with Sysco Seattle Inc. late Saturday, turning what had been rare public health alert into a more routine recall.
Utah this week became the second state to impose criminal sanctions against anyone taking photos or making videos inside factory farms without permission.
Coming less than a month after Iowa
Bob McDonald, Denver’s environmental health director, wants restaurateurs and the public at large to understand how the city now enforces inspections.
McDonald met Tuesday with some of Denver’s
When the goal is to get consumers back after last year’s deadly cantaloupe outbreak, the industry’s Stephen Patricio says growers need to impose “transparent yet severe and expensive
Health officials in the Golden State say an investigation into a Campylobacter outbreak associated with raw milk from Claravale Farm is continuing, but is not over.
“The California Department of
Denver’s restaurateurs hurting from the Great Recession agreed to a deal in which the Department of Environmental Health stopped posting reports of critical violations for customers to see, in
