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.
Coming a year after an oil spill and six years after a hugely damaging hurricane, the Gulf oyster industry fears too much fresh water coming down the Mississippi River could
All the lobbyists billing their respective and mostly meat industry clients made the point one more time Monday — they do not want fees replacing what the taxpayers now ante up
BON SECOUR, AL — Chris Nelson, vice president of Bon Secour Fisheries Inc., knew a year ago when the BP oil spill had just begun that the hardest damages to settle
When it was built just before the Civil War, the Nottoway Plantation House had about 80 acres of front yard between it and the Mississippi River. Today a dike that
Environmental swabs collected last Oct. 19 inside a Grandview, WA cheese processing facility were positive for Listeria monocytogenes, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). So were
Distrust between the food industry and consumers is growing, according to a recently released Deloitte survey, which provides one of the first measures of how the public feels about new
BATON ROUGE, LA — A year after the Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion and BP oil spill, the biggest thing in the environment impacting anglers is the wind.
Louisiana’s coastal
New Orleans is back.
Let me explain. The first trip I made here was in 2009, four years after Hurricane Katrina crippled the city by flooding 80 percent of the
If you are trying to get a bill passed, having it “left pending in committee” after a big public hearing cannot be good thing.
That’s exactly where House Bill
A Minnesota dairy farm received an April 19 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration after state agriculture officials conducted an investigation into animal drug misuse.
The
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspected California’s Tomaso’s Specialty Foods last December, the investigators left with a fistful of labels from the Blue Lake
Animal agriculture in the Texas Panhandle may be tested soon on whether it can punish its own when severe abuse is involved.
Castro County Sheriff Salvador Rivera is now investigating
