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.
One of the main purposes for my writing in this space each Sunday is to keep Food Safety News readers informed about FSN.
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The Michigan Cottage Food Law, signed by former Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm last July, is now taking effect and will likely become a model for legislation in other economically distressed
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it wants to stop Hank J. Hagen and Milton S. Reid and their Jamaica, NY-based operation from processing and distributing
Raw milk vendors and advocates failed earlier this week to persuade California’s Humboldt County to lift its ban on the sale of unpasteurized milk.
Mark McAfee, owner of the
People who stretch or break raw milk laws in the U.S. and Canada often are more likely to emerge as folk heroes rather than outlaws. The recent cases involving
The first warning letters of 2011 from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have gone to a Brooklyn seafood processing facility and a California seafood importer.
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Another half dozen new governors are taking office this week as the changeover in the nation’s executive mansions plays out. A majority of the statehouses are not only getting
America’s bison ranchers are bullish about 2011.
They are coming off their best year ever, with prices in the range of $3.25 per pound for slaughter bulls being
In the ongoing, confusing court battles over process involving genetically engineered (GE) or genetically modified (GM) crops, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has run up one white flag.
Any time something big happens, there are ramifications. With the President’s signature this week, the biggest shake up in food safety in 70 years became reality.
But that reality
Anyone looking for a trend in new state food safety laws taking effective this week had better remember one thing. The state legislative chambers that put the latest round of
Tico’s Mexican Foods Inc., a Denver food processor known for its green chili, received a Dec. 21 warning letter about its clam chowder from the U.S. Food and
