Food Safety NewsFederal Government Wants Michigan Dairy Shut Down
Michigan's Scenic View Dairy, with farms at Fennville, Freeport, and Gowen, should be shut down for selling cows for human consumption with antibiotic levels that exceed tolerable limits. So...
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Dan Flynn
Dan Flynn is a Denver-based writer and editor with more than ten 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 career as a journalist included working for newspapers throughout the West, from the Black Hills to Seattle. His on-scene reporting on the collapse of the Idaho’s Teton Dam and the suicide bombing at Washington State University’s Perham Hall was carried by newspapers around the world and was recognized both times regionally by the Associated Press for Best Reporting on a Deadline. Most of the disasters he attends these days involve food illnesses.
Articles Written by Dan Flynn
Litigation Twist Removed, PCA Payments Ready
U.S. District Judge Norman K. Moon Wednesday removed the final obstacle blocking settlements for victims of the infamous Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella outbreak that resulted in nine deaths...
USDA Sticks a Hoe into the Sugar Beet Issue
Caught since Aug. 13 between a federal judge and some inept inaction by the Agriculture Department, sugar beet growers with about one million acres in a dozen states have been...
'Fire them all,' Says R-CALF Chief
In 1892, disagreements among cattlemen about the use of the open range led to shootings, lynchings, and an open, armed conflict that came to be known as the Johnson County...
Purdue Scientist Develops Fast, Smart E. coli Test
Somebody may need to send a memo to J. Patrick Boyle at the American Meat Institute. That rapid analytical test for non-O157: H7 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) that...
Hong Kong Studies Cuisines Popular With Visitors
Hong Kong gets 30 million visitors a year, and they remain in the city for an average of 3.2 nights. Most of those visitors try Chinese regional cuisines sometime...
$300 Fine for Abusing Slaughterhouse Animals
Judge E.W. Coward of Canada's Lethbridge Provincial Court in southern Alberta has given local resident Andrew McMillan until Oct. 14 to pay a $300 fine.McMillan pleaded guilty on July 28...
Area off Louisiana Open to Fishing
Going into last weekend federal waters off the coast of Louisiana were re-opened to commercial and recreational fishing.NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service removed 4,281 square miles of federal waters from...
Seafood HACCP Snags Malaysian Fish Importer
To import fish to the United States, a Malaysian company recently shared all of its seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan and supporting documents with the U.S....
Monopoly Practices Divide Rural America
FORT COLLINS, CO--The joint Department of Justice/USDA workshop that was held here was a day-long demonstration of how rural America's views are widely differing when it comes to whether there...
Letter from the Editor: Antitrust
As the joint DOJ/USDA workshop on antitrust issues in the meat industry got underway in Fort Collins, CO Friday morning, Attorney General Eric Holder said something that caught my attention.These...
Michigan Sandwich Maker Gets FDA Warning Letter
A Michigan food processing facility is manufacturing tuna salad sandwiches without having a seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plan, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.In...
Amish Butter Products Risk Deadly Pathogen Growth
An Ohio food manufacturing facility making low-acid Sweet Potato Butter and Pumpkin Butter is risking the growth of pathogenic microorganisms that could lead to deadly botulism, the U.S. Food and...
High Antibiotic Levels Found in NY Veal Calves
An upstate New York dairy farm is selling bob veal calves with levels of the antibiotics Tetracycline and Penicillin in their edible tissues at levels that are higher than allowed...
DeCoster Contributions Went to Clinton in 2008
After she came in third in the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton's campaign for President received contributions of $2,300 each from Peter and Alina DeCoster of Clarion.Peter and Alina are the...