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.
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
Defense lawyers from Stoel Rives are out with a fine presentation for the food industry on what the Food Safety Modernization Act is all about. One part caught my eye.
They came Thursday morning for the cheese at Bravo Farms. Specifically U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agents, with help from U.S. Marshals, who seized about 80,000
Healthy Choice Islands Blends Inc. is a company that owes its founding to the dry bread, thin soup and water diet of the Shumen POW camp in Bulgaria.
It was
Oregon’s 121-year old Newman’s Fish Markets Inc. received a warning letter last Dec. 7 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over violations at its seafood
