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.
An impressive sounding name — Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine — is not likely to make up for the advocacy group’s lack of scientific evidence for a new petition it has
Blue Bell’s former chief executive has waived physical appearance for his initial appearance in federal court on felony charges stemming from a 2015 Listeria outbreak.
The defendant, Paul Kruse,
The Organic Consumers Association has sued Smithfield Foods Inc. in Superior Court for the District of Columbia over allegedly “deceptive food safety marketing representations about pork products.
Smithfield, VA-based Smithfield
The federal government this week signaled its willingness to take over any part of the food industry that isn’t functioning properly to keep production flowing.
For the moment, the
After almost three weeks with almost no activity, the criminal case involving the United States v. Paul Kruse has inched forward.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Lane filed an order
Correction of sorts: It seems that when Chris Gregory and I were speaking, he frequently referred to the term SKU, which is a stock keeping unit. I was hearing “skewed,
In March, when Mindy M. Brashears became the fifth Senate-confirmed USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety and Paul Kiecker moved up to be theUSDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service
Opinion
President Trump wanted to open American in time to celebrate the Resurrection on this past Easter Sunday, but he could not make it happen. Coloradans, however, are getting a
When USDA’s second quarter of the fiscal year ended on March 31, livestock slaughter was off only 2.2 percent from the first quarter and poultry production was actually
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says federal food safety agencies “could strengthen existing efforts to prepare for oversight of cell-cultured meat.”
However, the most
Meat production this week is up about 3 percent compared with the previous week, according to market reports by SiriusXM’s Rural Radio. That’s still off by as much
Coronavirus illnesses to date may touch as little as 4 percent of meat and poultry employment, but it been enough to roil the industry over how much protection the plants
