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.
Sodium, trans fat, and food dyes were on the agendas for meetings held last month with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner, Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg and some of
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) is now accepting public comment on a consultation document for two applications to approve the sale of genetically modified (GM) foods in Australia and
A bakery with misbranding issues and a juice-maker with sanitation problems have received warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Minneapolis district office.
Misbranding violations were
Louisiana, the nation’s largest producer of fresh oysters, has closed more of its Gulf Coast harvest areas this spring than at any time in the last decade.
The closures
Michael Moss and members of the New York Times staff won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for telling Stephanie Smith’s story, it was announced Monday.
Smith is
Going into this past weekend, on April 10, WinCo Foods recalled all ground beef products sold at its Modesto, CA store between April 3 and 9, 2010.
The Class 1,
In areas of India where the Hindu majority holds sway, “spent cows” wander freely because they are considered sacred as motherly figures that gave people milk.
In the United States,
We are going to miss Bart Stupak.
Without Bart Stupak, the former Michigan State Patrol trooper who chairs the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, it is very doubtful that Congress
Just like Coke and Pepsi, the soda tax formula was a fairly simple fix. At one penny per gram of sugar, it could raise almost $15 billion a year.
After
A Central Indiana dairy farm sold a small herd of cattle for slaughter as food that tests showed had higher than permissible levels of various antibiotics in kidney and liver
Everybody agrees that proper hand washing is the best defense against foodborne illnesses. But is washing with regular soap and water enough, or should we be using those antibacterial soaps
