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.
In 2019 and 2020, Wilbert Finley was a production manager with food safety responsibilities at Kraft Heinz’s Newberry, SC, plant, producing bacon and other packaged meats. Things became contentious
“Gas station heroin” took another hit on Wednesday as HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s FDA recommended a scheduling action to control certain 7-hydroxymitragynine (also known as 7-OH ) products
Salima Jandali was born in Morocco and immigrated to the United States as a child. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and anthropology from the University
The 2-year-old petition from Animal Partisan to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), calling upon the agency to share its federal jurisdiction over animal abuse with state
Ever since the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) tried in 2016 to classify kratom as a dangerous Schedule 1 drug, states have been on their own. That’s because
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld a critical element of the USDA’s organic label. The ruling in Pratum Farm LLC v USDA also
At the Tuesday opening of the USDA’s new Midwestern Food Safety Laboratory near St. Louis, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins launched a comprehensive plan to bolster efforts to combat
Saying that eggs and bacon cost too much, the federal government is citing the Supremacy Clause to strike down California’s Proposition 12.
That’s the bottom line for a
Twenty years ago, Oklahoma’s then-Attorney General Drew Edmondson sued 13 poultry companies in federal court for improper poultry litter disposal and environmental damage to the state’s water by
After 10 years as the top boss at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), Al Almanza stepped down in 2017. In the eight years since then, an administrator
