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.
Before the U.S. delegation jets off to Budapest for the 32nd Session of the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (CCMAS) on March 7-11, 2011, there will
Maine’s Portland Shellfish Co. Inc., and its officers have agreed to a consent degree that prohibits any of them from distributing seafood through interstate commence until they get federal
For the second time in less than a week, multiple foods imported from German have passed dioxin tests by Hong Kong’s Center for Food Safety, known for its ability
The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter over the misuse of animal drugs at Vander Schaaf Dairy #2, located in Escalon, CA.
According to FDA,
Last summer Brooklyn’s Azteca Linda Corp. was busy recalling cheese for Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Now a new Jan. 7 warning letter from the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The country’s economy was humming along in 1989 when a then-unknown filmmaker, Michael Moore, came out with a movie in which one memorable character was a woman named Rhonda
State inauguration ceremonies will wrap up this week for the nation’s 26 new state governors.
The 18 new Republican and eight new Democratic governors are making appointments to their
For the past 15 months, Bobby and Amanda Herring say God provided the food for their homeless outreach near the Harris County Jail in Houston, but apparently God forgot to
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
