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.
We’ve been accused this week of promoting the views of anti agricultural biotech activists and organizations for a story we ran Friday: “Scientist’s Letter Raises Roundup Concern.”
How
A soybean sprout processing facility in Newark was found contaminated with filth and pathogens, a Feb. 10 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says.
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State Rep. Chapin Rose, a 38-year-old lawyer representing the rural area around Charleston, IL, is a man on a mission.
Starting his fifth term in the Illinois Assembly, the Republican
When the environment for growing alfalfa sprouts goes badly, more dangerous pathogens than just the one can grow.
That’s what may have happened last summer at Snow White Food
Liver and muscle tissues taken from a goat sold last August for slaughter by a West Virginia livestock operation contained residue from the animal drug Moxidectin, which is used to
Conventional political wisdom holds that the months and even years after Congress enacts major reform may not be the best time to propose more reform.
But there are almost three
What happens if evidence, sitting in a drawer, changes before a judge has time to write a decision?
Just that may have happened in the ongoing saga of Oklahoma’s
“Serious deviations” from federal food safety regulations, including juice Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) rules, were reported in a Feb. 4 warning letter to Chicago’s Juice Tyme
During the past week, Food Safety News brought readers the details on the proposal for food safety funding in President Obama’s $3.7 trillion budget.
Helena Bottemiller, our capitol
Iowa’s 100 million laying hens are now coming in for “aggressive” attention, state Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey says.
In remarks to update legislators on the aftermath of last
The former owner of the Llay Fish Bar is going to jail for eight months and is banned from ever being in the food business again.
Wales has delivered justice
