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.
“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
Two companies and one veterinarian are paying fines totaling $125,000 for violations of agricultural laws enforced by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).
The penalties are the first court-imposed
At a conference in Washington D.C. Tuesday, food safety attorney Bill Marler told an audience of regulatory, nonprofit, and industry heavyweights that the federal government’s approach to E.
The retail food industry stepped forward Monday with a new, voluntary front-of-package nutrition labeling scheme. It would put calories, saturated fat, and sodium and total sugars content on the front
Corporate public images are usually made, and then maintained.
Think about corporations like Apple, Boeing, or Disney and what their corporate clothes say to us. It usually doesn’t change
