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.
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The 4th floor of the Holmes Building in Easton, PA, is the location of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania. Not everyone attending that court today may
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If there is a clown car in the federal District Court for Eastern Pennslyvania tomorrow, don’t bet no clowns will come out.
Whether they like it or not,
The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has completed a final report on last May’s Shiga-toxin E. coli outbreak in a Jackson County childcare facility. Pursuant to Iowa Open
The Massachusetts “cottage food law” is out-of-date and needs to be updated, according to some.
The Bay State was one of the first states to allow the sale of cottage
Maine voters passed a “right to food” measure Tuesday by a 60-to-40 percent margin.
The new constitutional right is the first of its kind in the nation.
Measure 3 on
A sure-fire way to create a kerfuffle in the courtroom is to fire or change out attorneys. Amos Miller knows this because he did it previously when USDA took him
A “quiet period” in the criminal charges against the 67-year old retired Blue Bell ice cream president may be ending.
Going on for four months, neither the government nor defense
Voters in Maine Tuesday will decide if the state will be first in the nation to include a constitutional “Right to Food.”
The ballot measure would add a right to
A grocer wants to recover more than $2.7 million from its beef supplier for an incident involving the sale of product contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
The claim
Farmer Amos Miller fired his attorney and now wants Prairie Star National, an advocacy group that may not include licensed counsel, to represent him.
But because it is not clear
Water and soil are the usual transmission sources when rare Burkholderia pseudomallei infections occur.
But in the latest CDC Health Update, the source of four recent associated Burkholderia pseudomallei Infections,
Twenty-two months after a petition was filed requesting that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) declare certain “outbreak” serotypes of Salmonella to be per se adulterants in meat
