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 leads editorial direction and covers foodborne illness policy.
Blackstone private equity funds own Packer Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI), which earlier this year was found violating child labor laws at 13 meat processing plants in eight states.
In some
As expected, USDA has followed Singapore by approving for the United States, the growth by two companies of animal cells into chicken products that one day might be sold to
USDA’s proposed rule with new regulatory requirements to better align the voluntary “Product of USA” label claim with consumer understanding of what the claim means appears to have collected
They may be close to parking the “Busload of Lawyers.” That was the moniker given to Oklahoma v. Tyson Foods filed in the federal District Court for the Northern District
With a new $275 million beef processing facility being built in Olathe, KS, with an opening of 2025 expected, Walmart plans to take a page from history by producing “case-ready”
The commercial slaughter of equine animals for human consumption ended in the United States 16 years ago. But the subject of horse slaughter still makes the annual legislative agenda in
California’s market for bacon and other pork products is large enough that a May 11 Supreme Court decision apparently has not ended the fight over Proposition 12. The conservative
In the nearly four years that brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell have pursued federal Writs of Habeas Corpus, the procedure has not given them much encouragement. But that may be
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael S. Regan, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, and Matthew M. Graves of the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington D.C. are all being
Three years after the indictment of Rhode Island Beef and Veal, Michael A. Quattrucci will, in July, stand for sentencing after pleading guilty on two counts of defrauding customers.
Quattrucci,
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The outlines of a secretive plan to outlaw “the use of slaughterhouses” and put any employees who are displaced on some sort of welfare have begun to emerge in
After it passed the lower house in mid-May by a floor vote of 54-to-12, the food product safety bill known as AB-418 advanced to the California Senate where it picked
