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.
The best on-farm practices for producers to protect livestock and poultry from disease are the subject of a new online video from the Government of Canada.
“Producers have a
The Rainbow Acres Farm is illegally selling raw milk across state lines for human consumption, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has charged.
FDA used UPS to deliver
Peru’s unicameral Congress has apparently made a deal.
A new Peruvian consumer code will require that food labels disclose both organic and genetically modified ingredients. At the same time,
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently conducted a Food Safety Assessment at Fort Worth’s Beltex Corporation and discovered possible E. coli
A Washington state woman who made one false report too many about a piece of glass in a bottle of water is getting both jail time and home detention, according
Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, the President’s choice to be the next Under Secretary of Food Safety at the Department of Agriculture, Monday will begin her fourth month of waiting to
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a statement Tuesday, saying “a story in today’s Washington Post leaves a mistaken impression that the FDA has begun the
The Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America, known as R-CALF USA, wants the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point abandoned
Since President Obama made his pick to be Under Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture for Food Safety, top officials at USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
By mistakenly not disclosing wheat starch on the ingredient label, a California meat processor has been forced to recall 140,000 pounds of fully cooked assorted products.
Santa Ana-based
WinCo Foods announced Saturday that it is issuing an expansion of a Class 1 recall of fresh ground beef products to include ground beef sold at all of its retail
Last year, the federal government issued egg safety regulations designed to prevent Salmonella Enteritidis in shell eggs during production, transportation, and storage.
Now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
