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.

Paid fines indicate meat industry’s use of child labor is more widespread than previously known

If Homeland Security is investigating the meat industry for human trafficking as was reported, it could be a long time before anything specific about that is known. But the Labor

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Feb 2023

Paid fines indicate meat industry’s use of child labor is more widespread than previously known

Department of Labor nabs another meat plant for child labor violations

Another meat processing plant, this one far distant from the first, has been found violating federal child labor laws by the U.S. Department of Labor. The latest violator is

By Dan Flynn

/ 16 Feb 2023

Department of Labor nabs another meat plant for child labor violations

PETA campaigning for criminal prosecution of packing plant in petition

PETA has filed new comments to an old petition to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, seeking to have more criminal charges filed against a business previously found to

By Dan Flynn

/ 14 Feb 2023

PETA campaigning for criminal prosecution of packing plant in petition

Washington State Bill to exempt consumer sales of raw milk up for committee vote

An upcoming Feb. 17 vote by the Washington State House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee will tell whether a bill to remove regulations from raw milk sold directly from the

By Dan Flynn

/ 13 Feb 2023

Washington State Bill to exempt consumer sales of raw milk up for committee vote

Like making sausage, the 2023 Farm Bill isn’t something that you will want to look at

It’s likely to bring the year’s biggest bipartisan, bicameral agreement. It will commit taxpayers to spend another half trillion dollars. It will make promises that aren’t logical.

By Dan Flynn

/ 10 Feb 2023

Like making sausage, the 2023 Farm Bill isn’t something that you will want to look at

FDA decides CBD products have unknown dangers that Congress should look at

CBD, the second most prevalent active ingredient in marijuana, is readily obtainable just about everywhere in the United States. By itself, it does not cause a “high” and the World

By Dan Flynn

/ 8 Feb 2023

FDA decides CBD products have unknown dangers that Congress should look at

Frequent marijuana use by Colorado youths associated with psychotic disorders

Colorado became the first in the nation in 2012 to make the recreational use of marijuana legal. In the following year when recreational marijuana sales got underway, Colorado’s General

By Dan Flynn

/ 5 Feb 2023

Frequent marijuana use by Colorado youths associated with psychotic disorders

First hearing set for challenge to new WOTUS rule by major private landowners

April 5 is the date of the first hearing for the many parties involved in a federal court challenge to a final rule posted this past December from EPA and

By Dan Flynn

/ 3 Feb 2023

First hearing set for challenge to new WOTUS rule by major private landowners

It’s the 10th anniversary of the PCA indictment and the courts are still working on it

This February is the 10th anniversary of the criminal indictment of Peanut Corporation of America’s executives. And the two defendants who remain in federal custody are still actively pursuing

By Dan Flynn

/ 31 Jan 2023

It’s the 10th anniversary of the PCA indictment and the courts are still working on it

Letter from the Editor: An independent food safety board is far better than anything FDA Commissioner does on his own

— OPINION — How food safety is best organized in a country this big and this populous is the question we should be asking. Instead during the past confusing year, we’ve

By Dan Flynn

/ 29 Jan 2023

Letter from the Editor: An independent food safety board is far better than anything FDA Commissioner does on his own

APHIS is preparing Environmental Impact Statement on worsening avian flu outbreaks

Avian flu has burned through 60 million domestic birds in at least 47 states, egg prices have hit the stratosphere, and more troubling, the virus is mutating to infect mammals

By Dan Flynn

/ 26 Jan 2023

APHIS is preparing Environmental Impact Statement on worsening avian flu outbreaks

FDA puts focus on lead levels in baby food

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tuesday announced draft guidance for the industry on “action levels” for lead in processed foods that are intended for babies and children under

By Dan Flynn

/ 25 Jan 2023

FDA puts focus on lead levels in baby food

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Paid fines indicate meat industry’s use of child labor is more widespread than previously known

Department of Labor nabs another meat plant for child labor violations

PETA campaigning for criminal prosecution of packing plant in petition

Washington State Bill to exempt consumer sales of raw milk up for committee vote

Like making sausage, the 2023 Farm Bill isn’t something that you will want to look at

FDA decides CBD products have unknown dangers that Congress should look at

Frequent marijuana use by Colorado youths associated with psychotic disorders

First hearing set for challenge to new WOTUS rule by major private landowners

It’s the 10th anniversary of the PCA indictment and the courts are still working on it

Letter from the Editor: An independent food safety board is far better than anything FDA Commissioner does on his own

APHIS is preparing Environmental Impact Statement on worsening avian flu outbreaks

FDA puts focus on lead levels in baby food