Food Safety NewsAnthrax Warnings for UK Heroin Users
Both England and Scotland since December have recorded cases of anthrax where the source is believed to be heroin or a contaminated cutting agent mixed with heroin.There is no evidence...
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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
Vietnam: Pepper Not Contaminated
Vietnam is not about to accept blame for the nationwide Salmonella Montevideo outbreak in the United States.Do Ha Nam, chairman of Vietnam Pepper Association, says the Salmonella outbreak in the...
Poultry Litter Limits Offered by OK
In documents filed ahead of this week's closing arguments in a trial against 11 poultry companies, the State of Oklahoma says it could live with an application limit of 65...
Letter From The Editor: Regulatory Fees
We think of the federal government as this mammoth money machine churning across the land with close to $4 trillion in annual spending and with a credit card lifestyle that...
USDA Calls Plays for Safe Super Bowl Food
For millions of Americans, Super Bowl Sunday is all about going to somebody else's house for eating and drinking before, during, and probably after the game between the New Orleans...
Report Lists Familiar Products in Recalls
All the familiar items are found on this week's Enforcement Report from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Peanuts and pistachios, bad cheese, undeclared milk are all included in...
Botulism Fears Bring Herring Recall
Haifa Smoked Fish, located in Queens, New York, is recalling Haifa brand vacuum packaged Whole Schmaltz Herring because the product was found to be uneviscerated.The lot being recalled is a...
Outbreak Recall Continues To Grow
For the second time, Rhode Island-based Daniele Inc. has added both poundage and products to its ongoing recall of Italian-style sausage products.According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety...
U.S. Marshals Raid Wisconsin Warehouse
It was getting a little ripe in the Cheese Curd Capital of Wisconsin. The state Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection had put a hold order on removing food...
Man Sues Salami Maker, Pepper Producer
Harold Lee Hanks was so ill, weak, and disoriented by Jan. 23 after eating salami he purchased at his local Wal-Mart six days earlier that his wife demanded that he...
State Names Second Bad Pepper Distributor
Brooklyn's Wholesome Spice and Seasonings was not the only company supplying black pepper contaminated with Salmonella Montevideo to Daniele Inc., the Rhode Island Department of Health said Wednesday.Dayton, NJ's Mincing...
Seafood Processors Have HACCP Issues
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to hear from one foreign and two domestic seafood processors who share the problem of "having serious violations" of seafood Hazard Analysis...
Clarification: A Section Renamed
Over the last few weeks, Food Safety News has received numerous inquiries related to our "Contributed Articles" section. This section is dedicated to featuring articles and opinion pieces written by...
West Missouri Beef Recalls 14,000 lbs
Rockville, Missouri-based West Missouri Beef is recalling approximately 14,000 pounds of fresh boneless beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety...
PRC on Mission to Destroy Melamine-Milk
The People's Republic of China clearly is not handling the latest melamine-tainted milk problem like it did the last time. The slow action that marked the last melamine-in-milk scandal in...