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.
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
Editor’s Note: In 1919, canned ripe olives spread an outbreak of deadly Botulism to three states. Nineteen people died, almost half the deaths ever caused by food products commercially
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Tagged as “inexpedient to legislate” in New Hampshire and shelved in Utah, state food freedom bills got little traction for a second straight year.
Shannon Shutts, spokeswoman for the New
This past January, Kansas experienced its third outbreak of disease associated with consumption of raw milk since 2007.
Chelsea Good, spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Agriculture, says because the
Editor’s Note: In May 1911, as many as 1,400 people in the Boston area were infected with micro-organisms – most likely staphylococci or streptococci – spread by contaminated raw milk
A botulism diagnosis usually does not come from a county sheriff and cookies are usually not potential sources of the deadly disease.
But late Wednesday, two West Virginia television stations
The deadly pathogen known as E. coli O104:H4, which devastated northern Europe last year, can itself be killed, San Francisco-based AvidBiotics Corporation announced Wednesday.
Dean Scholl, who leads a
