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.
His calendar at the medium-security federal prison at Hazelton, WV, might well have March 9 circled. His move there last year puts 65-year old Steward Parnell just 200 miles away
Mary Wilkerson, quality control officer for the defunct Peanut Corporation of America, is free after serving a 5-year federal prison sentence for obstruction of justice.
Wilkerson, 46 of Edison, GA.
Bovine Kobuvirus, a cattle virus first discovered in Japan in 2003, has arrived in the United States.
The arrival is reported in the medical journal, “Emerging Infectious Diseases.” Bovine Kobuvirus
Writing in Forbes recently, Nick Sibilia, with the public interest law firm Institute forJustice, was positively giddy about the Food Freedom movement.
“Almost four years after the nation’s first
As effective as the annual bans on USDA inspections of horse slaughter for human consumption have been, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-IL, and Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-FL want a more permanent
Federal judges did not much like the newer laws to protect animal agriculture from prying eyes. So-called “ag-gag” laws adopted during the last decade in Utah, Idaho, and Iowa were
A state consumer group has stepped up with recommendations it says would provide a serious boost to our food safety system. The Seattle-based Washington Public Interest Research Group (Wash PIRG)
With annual retail sales approaching $100 billion, an effective structure of industry associations, and powerful K Street lobbyists, this week is ending in surprising silence from the powerful meat and
A petition to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service asking for the listing of 31 Salmonella strains as meat and poultry adulterants raises a question. How did FSIS respond
Attorneys representing the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service in 2014 because the agency would not declare the most dangerous Salmonella
It’s a rare day when two multistate and one single state outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 are declared over.
It’s likely even a first-time event, just another
