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.
Caught since Aug. 13 between a federal judge and some inept inaction by the Agriculture Department, sugar beet growers with about one million acres in a dozen states have been
In 1892, disagreements among cattlemen about the use of the open range led to shootings, lynchings, and an open, armed conflict that came to be known as the Johnson County
Somebody may need to send a memo to J. Patrick Boyle at the American Meat Institute. That rapid analytical test for non-O157: H7 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) that AMI
Hong Kong gets 30 million visitors a year, and they remain in the city for an average of 3.2 nights. Most of those visitors try Chinese regional cuisines sometime
Judge E.W. Coward of Canada’s Lethbridge Provincial Court in southern Alberta has given local resident Andrew McMillan until Oct. 14 to pay a $300 fine.
McMillan pleaded guilty
Going into last weekend federal waters off the coast of Louisiana were re-opened to commercial and recreational fishing.
NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service removed 4,281 square miles of
To import fish to the United States, a Malaysian company recently shared all of its seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan and supporting documents with the U.
FORT COLLINS, CO–The joint Department of Justice/USDA workshop that was held here was a day-long demonstration of how rural America’s views are widely differing when it comes
As the joint DOJ/USDA workshop on antitrust issues in the meat industry got underway in Fort Collins, CO Friday morning, Attorney General Eric Holder said something that caught my
A Michigan food processing facility is manufacturing tuna salad sandwiches without having a seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan, according to the U.S. Food and Drug
An Ohio food manufacturing facility making low-acid Sweet Potato Butter and Pumpkin Butter is risking the growth of pathogenic microorganisms that could lead to deadly botulism, the U.S. Food
An upstate New York dairy farm is selling bob veal calves with levels of the antibiotics Tetracycline and Penicillin in their edible tissues at levels that are higher than allowed
