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.
More money and reorganization are often offered as solutions when deficiencies turn up in government.
This time, food regulation by the Food and Drug Administration has come up short. In
Canada’s Northern Goose Processors Ltd. has petitioned USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to amend regulations implementing the Poultry Products Inspection Regulations’ proposed definition of ready-to-cook poultry.
Brothers Stewart Parnell, 67, and Michael Parnell, 63, will each be filing objections to the federal habeas corpus recommendations against them in relation to food safety felonies involving the deadly
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Food Safety News was the first to hire Helena Bottemiller Evich to cover food safety in Washington D.C., during the run up to the passage of the Food
The U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Georgia recommends denial of motions to release brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell from federal custody. Judge Thomas Q. Langstaff quietly
Dr. Susan Mayne of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition was scheduled to speak to the Alliance for a Stronger FDA Tuesday morning, the first such
It does not look like there is going to be any recall of mislabeled beef, but new studies do mean there is more uncertainty at the meat counter. The study
Food and agricultural products imported to the European Union may soon have to meet the E.U.’s health and environmental standards.
Food and agricultural products imported to the E.
Time was when no state legislature worth its salt would convene until well after mid-January and adjourn by planting season around mid-April. Enough states still adhere to that schedule that
When the job of recommending dietary guidelines occurred during the pandemic, the task went almost unnoticed, but so did the conflicts of interest that existed among the 20 people who
A major rule change was rolled out this week for the rapidly growing organic dairy industry in the United States.
The USDA Origin of Livestock rule announced this week puts
The “Truth in Labeling of Food Products Act” passed by the Louisiana Legislature in 2019 violates the commercial free speech rights of Turtle Island Foods, which produces and packages plant-based
