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.
ROSEMONT, IL — The 25th Food Safety Summit near Chicago ended on an encouraging note with a panel of lawyers no less who from varying perspectives said food culture is not
In a 5-to-4 decision, a Supreme Court majority said the type of meat sold in California does not create any constitutional problems for the state’s voter-approved Proposition 12.
The
ROSEM0NT, IL — The 25th Annual Food Safety Summit opted for a keynote panel presentation Wednesday instead of the more traditional keynote speaker.
But before that, the Food Safety Magazine Distinguished
On the 150th anniversary of the Irish Potato Famine, where starvation killed one million Irish, then British Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a statement that was taken as an apology
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Everybody should be familiar with the story so far.
U.S. Department of Labor investigators in late 2022 and in early 2023, found more than 100 minor children doing
Only the signature of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is required now to permit the sale of raw milk in the Hawkeye State from dairy farms with no more than ten
Cargill, Tyson Foods, and JBS have all terminated contracts with Packers Sanitation Services Inc., or PSSI, since it paid fines of $1.5 million for child labor violations. Losing contracts
Food safety is reason enough to kill the Processing Revival and Interstate Meat Exemption Act, otherwise known as the PRIME Act, according to some of the industry’s most powerful
Scott Faber, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, and Kalena Wojtala, a J.D. candidate at Vermont Law School and an intern working for the Environmental Working Group (EWG), have
Getting a Presidential appointment and Senate confirmation turned out to be no easy task for Jose Emilio Esteban, the new Undersecretary for Food Safety. Yet he’s turned in his
A decision earlier this week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow the use of the pesticide chlormequat has brought a strong rebuke from the Environmental Working
The chicken industry, represented by the Washington D.C.-based National Chicken Council, is letting the world know it has “grave concerns” about USDA’s plans to declare Salmonella an
