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.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the form 483 inspection report for Urbana, IL-based Tiny Greens Organic Farms.
It sheds more light on how Tiny Greens
When you’ve been running the board in a San Francisco courtroom and you are on the verge of having genetically modified (GM) sugar beets torn up by their roots,
Food prices, salt, and waste all topped concerns about food safety in the periodic tracking survey conducted in the United Kingdom for the Food Standards Agency.
In a November 2010
Hong Kong ceased testing all German food products for dioxin, switching Feb. 1 to sample checks after more than 100 tests for the chemical were negative.
The Food and Environmental
Just a few hours before writing this week’s column, I thought I was going to refrain from expressing an opinion on anything and just stick to reporting on some
Food truck mania now has its own national website where foodies can find their favorite mobile vendors by metropolitan area.
Not surprisingly, Food Truck Locater is a Miami creation, the
Dr. Paul Cieslak was probably the last guy a group of small farmers trying to win exemptions from state food safety rules wanted showing up at the Oregon House Agriculture
Seafood processors in Miami, Albany, and Menomonie ran afoul of federal regulations late in 2010, bringing them recent warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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“I am. Therefore I bake,” is the motto of the Tiller Biscotti & Cookie Company in Jackson, MS. Federal regulators, however, seem to focus more on the existence of potential
A grade B dairy plant in Winthrop, MN owned by the giant milk-marketing cooperative known as Dairy Farmers of America was found contaminated with Salmonella senftenberg during a routine inspection.
The 76th Session of the Oregon Legislature will get underway Tuesday in Salem. It will wait only until the next day to take up a sweeping new farm law that
The nation’s new governors are now all at their posts, and most have already delivered their own “State of State” or budget messages. After last November’s election, 29
