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.
Food safety in Nebraska is based on the ultimate public-private partnership. Both the taxpayers and fee-paying food businesses share the freight.
At the non-partisan Nebraska Unicameral, the time has come
Ten days ago, we kicked over a hornet’s nest by passing on a solid report suggesting the Obama Administration planned to use its newly sought “consolidation authority” to put
Civil penalties totaling $4,250 for providing substandard housing to migrant workers are being imposed against Colorado cantaloupe grower Eric Jensen, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s
At some date soon in February or March, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty may follow the tradition of putting on new shoes and walking into the House of Commons with
New Jersey teetered on the brink of allowing commercial raw milk sales last year, but it did not happen.
Assembly Bill 743, setting up a permit system and allowing the
Four years ago when the organization long equated with the vegan lifestyle said it would give $1 million to any scientist who could make chicken in a laboratory, there were
For everyone who went through the controversies surrounding passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act in the United States, what is happening now in New Zealand is going to sound
One out of six Americans will get sick this year from foodborne illnesses, says a new television commercial.
And 3,000 will die, according to a radio spot.
Many in
A single federal food safety agency, long sought by many advocates, will happen if Congress grants the Obama Administration authority to reorganize the government, according to the subscription news service
The U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce might have substituted a photo for its brief investigation report, released Tuesday, on the outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infection from contaminated
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will close district offices in Lawrence, KS; Beltsville, MD; Minneapolis, MN, Albany, NY; and Madison, WS.
The
Tomorrow in San Diego, California cantaloupe growers will meet with scientific advisers and regulators to chart a recovery course for an industry cut down by a deadly Listeria outbreak last
