Dan Flynn

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.

Eleventh Circuit consolidates Stewart and Micheal Parnell cases for oral arguments

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has consolidated the cases of the brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell. The high court based in Atlanta granted Elliott M.

By Dan Flynn

/ 25 Jul 2024

Eleventh Circuit consolidates Stewart and Micheal Parnell cases for oral arguments

Food Safety and Inspection Service leadership meets with public, industry representatives

The best sign that post-pandemic normalcy is back at USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is that everybody is again getting their meeting times. That means that Dr. Emilio

By Dan Flynn

/ 24 Jul 2024

Food Safety and Inspection Service leadership meets with public, industry representatives

A Trump win won’t bring Sonny Perdue back to USDA

If Donald Trump does win back the Presidency, it’s unlikely that Sonny Perdue will make a repeat performance as Secretary of Agriculture, Feedstuff Daily is reporting. Perdue says he

By Dan Flynn

/ 23 Jul 2024

A Trump win won’t bring Sonny Perdue back to USDA

Conservative Wyoming Congresswoman wants to send JBS packing

Wyoming’s Rep Harriet M. Hageman is best known for ending the political career of former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. Hageman has now asked U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

By Dan Flynn

/ 19 Jul 2024

Conservative Wyoming Congresswoman wants to send JBS packing

Risk warnings are not pausing raw milk consumption

At a time when friends don’t let friends drink raw milk and some world-renowned scientists with deep expertise in the H5N1 virus think the situation is serious enough that

By Dan Flynn

/ 18 Jul 2024

Risk warnings are not pausing raw milk consumption

CDC sends team to Colorado as human bird flu cases double over the weekend

A nine-member team from the federal Centers For Disease Control and Prevention is on scene in Colorado because the nation’s top contagious disease expert has confirmed four more human

By Dan Flynn

/ 16 Jul 2024

CDC sends team to Colorado as human bird flu cases double over the weekend

Food safety budgets are coming together, but not without some concerns

The USDA will have to live with about 1 percent less than this year next year, but the 2025 budget for the department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service will

By Dan Flynn

/ 15 Jul 2024

Food safety budgets are coming together, but not without some concerns

Survey finds public does not know as much as it should concerning raw milk

An Annenberg survey of 1,031 American adults found that the population did not know much about raw milk at a time when that lack of knowledge could be putting

By Dan Flynn

/ 12 Jul 2024

Survey finds public does not know as much as it should concerning raw milk

Bird flu kept on coming during the holiday weekend

Since the bird flu was first reported in dairy cows on March 25, scientific inquiry has picked up to the point where findings and expert opinions are being made weekly.

By Dan Flynn

/ 10 Jul 2024

Bird flu kept on coming during the holiday weekend

Organic association suggests Perdue Farms’ petition needs some work

Perdue Farms LLC petitioned the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in March of 2023 requesting that the service conduct a rulemaking process to define separate “free range” and “pasture-raised”

By Dan Flynn

/ 9 Jul 2024

Organic association suggests Perdue Farms’ petition needs some work

Colorado dairy worker is the fourth human this year to contract and recover from H5N1

A man working on a dairy farm in northeast Colorado has become the fourth human in the United States to test positive for bird flu this year. He had direct

By Dan Flynn

/ 4 Jul 2024

Colorado dairy worker is the fourth human this year to contract and recover from H5N1

The end of Chevron doctrine does not end food safety regulation, but it may make it more difficult

The “Chevron deference or doctrine” that bit the dust last week when the Supreme Court nixed it means courts will no longer defer to federal agencies’ interpretation of ambiguous laws.

By Dan Flynn

/ 3 Jul 2024

The end of Chevron doctrine does not end food safety regulation, but it may make it more difficult

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Dan Flynn

Eleventh Circuit consolidates Stewart and Micheal Parnell cases for oral arguments

Food Safety and Inspection Service leadership meets with public, industry representatives

A Trump win won’t bring Sonny Perdue back to USDA

Conservative Wyoming Congresswoman wants to send JBS packing

Risk warnings are not pausing raw milk consumption

CDC sends team to Colorado as human bird flu cases double over the weekend

Food safety budgets are coming together, but not without some concerns

Survey finds public does not know as much as it should concerning raw milk

Bird flu kept on coming during the holiday weekend

Organic association suggests Perdue Farms’ petition needs some work

Colorado dairy worker is the fourth human this year to contract and recover from H5N1

The end of Chevron doctrine does not end food safety regulation, but it may make it more difficult