Editor Dan Flynn is a Northern Colorado-based writer and editor with more more than 15 years of food safety experience. As a public affairs professional, he worked with government and regulatory agencies at the local, state, and federal levels. His c
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
Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE), a Virginia-based advocacy group that keeps its funding sources secret, is soliciting comments on the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission and its
Princess Bednarski, Livestock Manager for the Houston Humane Society (HHS), has renewed support for a 2-year-old petition from Animal Partisan to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
The Center for Biological Diversity, the Humane Society of the United States, and the Humane Society Legislative Fund filed a petition with the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) nearly
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed Senate Bill 261, making the Lone Star State the seventh in the nation to ban lab-grown meat.
Texas new law establishes a prohibition on
North Carolina’s 2025 Farm Act may enhance the state’s ban on raw milk sales, taking a loophole-closing approach to non-pasteurized dairy.
The 2025 Farm Act, Senate Bill 639,
