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.
Suicide is not the usual way for a bill to die.
But that word may be appropriate to the obituary of Colorado House Bill 11-1190, a bill that would have
To get back into compliance with its own state code, and without raising fees, Iowa is going with a risk-based restaurant inspection system beginning April 1. The state can no
A trio of seafood processing facilities were cited for serious violations of federal food safety regulations and informed of the allegations in warning letters that were made public last week.
It’s probably no comfort to tomato growers who lost their crop that year, but the team that investigated the 2008 Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak has stepped up with an explanation
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.
FDA
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
