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.
For 35,000 resident Americans and two million tourists from the states, leisurely dining out in Costa Rica is part of the “Pure Life.”
Restaurants in Costa Rica are regulated
More conversations were occurring this week about Food Safety News 2.0. Publisher Bill Marler explained as much as can be explained about this in his column last Sunday.
For
In the world of international diplomacy, it’s apparently more important to massage egos than to risk hurt feelings.
So a “dispute panel” appointed by the World Trade Organization (WTO)
The federal government has dropped the hammer on a 64-year old Portland mung bean sprout operation that distributed in Oregon and Washington.
At the behest of the U.S. Food
The consumer advocacy groups that went to court this week in an attempt to take non-therapeutic antibiotics away from animal agriculture ignored science, failed to cite any data and did
The same groups that did a pretty good job last year of convincing former CBS news anchor Katie Couric that giving antibiotics to the healthy animals we eat is not
The British consumer group that goes by the name “Which?” called it a U-turn as the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency decided to allow the sale of meat and
Do-N-Joy Holsteins at Arlington, MN was charged in a May 11 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with misuse of the animal drug penicillin G procaine.
The contents of the sealed complaint that led to last week’s raid by U.S. Marshals of Brunkow Cheese of Wisconsin Inc., located near Darlington, were made public after
Up until now, court challenges to genetically engineered crops have mostly been about process and procedure, not the merits of the brave new GM world.
But a decision last week
Zuccaro’s Produce Co. in Minneapolis received a May 9 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about drip or condensate in its building.
“Your plant and
A half dozen seafood processing facilities and importers around the country are working to get back into compliance with federal regulations after their food-handling practices were questioned by the U.
