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.
Bite, the quarterly magazine of the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA), is stirring the genetically modified (GM) foods debate by dedicating its entire, just-released 32-page issue to the subject.
School lunches were associated with fights back in the Stone Age when I was growing up. As I recall, the fights could happen in at least a couple of ways.
A dozen inmates at the Utah State Prison are being treated for potentially deadly botulism after drinking alcohol made in a jail cell, state health officials say.
Eight of the
The multistate outbreak of listeriosis linked to cantaloupes now includes another death — this one in Wyoming — and a miscarriage in Iowa, along with another melon recall by a western New
In liberal enclaves like Seattle, San Francisco and Washington D.C., paid sick leave mandates on private businesses are just considered the routine business of city councils.
But in Denver,
The Super Committee charged with cutting at least $1.5 trillion from future federal spending should not count on any new food safety taxes or fees, says a growing coalition
The outbreak of listeriosis linked to whole Rocky Ford-brand cantaloupes from Colorado’s Jensen Farms is now more than six times larger than it was when the first public warnings
Ever since Marie Antoinette was falsely associated with the quote “let them eat cake” at a time when bread was more on people’ s minds, governments have been pushing food
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations produced the Food Safety Modernization Act after a series of public hearings on tragic foodborne illness outbreaks involving everything from peanut butter to eggs.
Another major egg producer is having trouble complying with the federal government’s new egg rule.
Forsman Farms, producer of Mae’s Eggs, in Cokato, MN, received an Aug. 30
A new 25-page background paper from the environmental group Food & Water Watch is long on information supporting its views on the science and politics surrounding genetically engineered food.
But
Many a drive-by shooting is successful without anyone getting hit, so Del Monte Fresh Produce got to do a victory dance last week after FDA re-opened the U.S. border
