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.
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
The widow of a man who died from a Listeria monocytogenes infection has sued Sangar Fresh Cut Produce in a Texas court.
Elizabeth Castellano claims her husband, Hermillo Castellano, died
Wild Thymes Farm Inc., which sells its products by mail and through popular retailers, has run afoul of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) acidified food
With the National Western Stock Show opening in Denver on Saturday, and the start-up of county fair season just ahead in Florida, planners of similar events featuring animals and children
A Dec. 2nd warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to Fort Bragg, CA-based Ocean Fresh LLC says the seafood processing facility is producing ready-to-eat raw
