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 leads editorial direction and covers foodborne illness policy.
President Trump has again nominated Mindy Brashears to be USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety.
Brashears served as Undersecretary for Food Safety for the last 303 days of Trump’s
The 41.7 million people who received monthly SNAP benefits in 2024 have long known they cannot use what were once called food stamps to purchase alcohol, tobacco, personal care
Amos Miller could not be blamed for wishing it were last year. That’s when he was a star in the middle of a campaign that helped deliver Pennsylvania to
Poultry vaccines are available to producers who need to control Bronchitis, Bursal Disease, Encephalitis, Fowl Pox, Laryngotracheitis, Marek’s Disease, Mycoplasma Gallisepticum, Newcastle Disease, Pigeon Pox, Reovirus, and Tenosynovitis. Those
To get their whole milk and 2 percent products back into the nation’s schools, dairy farmers may have to accept some competition from non-dairy alternatives.
According to the Plant
A petition campaign is underway to secure a place on the 2025 election ballot in Denver to ban foie gras in the Mile High City.
This year, the campaign sponsor
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has withdrawn a generous subsidy that the last administration provided to Moderna to help with the late-stage development of an avian
With the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission Report, pesticide use that may harm children while helping farmers is quickly emerging as one of the battle lines.
Health and Human
Jeffrey P. Havens, the former president of the Montana Environmental Health Association, is an expert in food safety who is relatively new to the legal arena. Michael D. Russell, an
JBS has created a new parent company registered in the Netherlands and traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This means the Brazilian brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista, who
Whole cucumbers grown by Bedner Growers Inc. and distributed by Fresh Start Produce Inc. are linked to a multistate outbreak of Salmonella in several states that began April 29.
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In most states, now is the time to quit worrying because most state legislatures are wrapping up by now. But in Louisiana, state lawmakers don’t get started in Baton
