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.
Six people in Western Kentucky are hospitalized with a specific strain of E. coli in an outbreak that Public Health investigators have not been able to identify the food source,
The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) has released its findings for 2019 for the sources of Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157, Listeria monocytogenes, and Campylobacter in 1,532 foodborne disease
A federal judge in Rochester, NY, has ruled he can review the denial of a rulemaking petition that suggests USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service should prohibit behavior that
The country is ready to panic over all sorts of shortages, but Massachusetts has something specific to fear: an egg shortage. It is so bad a possibility that some call
U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Q. Langstaff is giving the government until Oct. 22 to reply to a post-hearing brief for Michael Parnell. Department of Justice (DOJ) trial attorney Speare
Opinion
Here’s a spoiler alert. I like vaccinations.
Two of my friends growing up, one with mean leg braces and the other confined to a wheelchair, were polio victims.
The way the Department of Justice sees it, the once chief executive officer of the now-defunct Peanut Corporation of America is a keeper.
Government counsel wants the Middle District of
An online threat in April 2020 that said someone was paid to spread COVID-19 at Texas grocery stores has sent a San Antonio man to federal prison for 15 months
Before the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta said the Cyclosporiasis season was over for another year, it added 156 cases from September to the yearly
.Another addition to the food safety library is arriving later this month.
“Fixing Food: An FDA Insider Unravels the Myths and the Solutions” is scheduled to be available for purchase
Amos Miller and Miller’s Organic Farm did get another hearing this past Friday in Pennsylvania’s Eastern District Court, but federal Judge Edward Smith did not make any decisions.
A candidate vaccine, known as ASFV-G-DI177l—efficiently protects against African swine fever, USDA announced Thursday.
USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) published new research that highlights a new vaccine candidate
