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.
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
USDA today took another step to make the products it regulates safer by banning some poultry products from being contaminated with a pathogen that causes foodborne illness in people. Since
Now on senior status, Federal Judge W. Louis Sands presided over the 2014 criminal trial of Peanut Corporation of American executives. And in new rulings, Sands has said “No” and
The conference committee’s amendments on prohibitions and exemptions were accepted before the North Dakota Legislature OK’d farmers selling raw milk directly to consumers.
Those provisions provide that
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The Denver-based National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) reports that 39 state Legislatures continue to be in session, and most of those are just getting interesting with a month or
Louisana’s “Truth in Labeling of Food Products Act” adopted in 2019 does not violate any constitutional guarantees. It is also no threat to the business practice of the Hood
USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has begun avian influenza vaccination trials that might be effective against the deadly virus in another 18 to 24 months.
Highly pathogenic avian influenza
Shortly after I began working in a daily newspaper newsroom, someone mentioned that a story “had legs.” I did not have a clue as to what he was talking about.
This week is going to be remembered for another definition of the Waters of the United States, commonly known as WOTUS, being struck down by a federal court.
In this
