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 leads editorial direction and covers foodborne illness policy.

The role of public sector unions in food safety renews a debate that began 90 years ago

It was President Franklin D. Roosevelt who, in 1935, signed the Wagner National Labor Relations Act, which became the foundation for modern collective bargaining through unions. But FDR had one

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Aug 2025

The role of public sector unions in food safety renews a debate that began 90 years ago

FSIS on the frontline as New World screwworm threatens food safety in the United States

Food safety is a top concern driving U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins to combat the threat of New World screwworm (NWS), a pest that is endemic in Central

By Dan Flynn

/ 19 Aug 2025

FSIS on the frontline as New World screwworm threatens food safety in the United States

Kratom’s 7-OH made illegal in Florida under emergency rule

Just two weeks after Louisiana became the seventh state to ban kratom entirely, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced that an emergency rule had been filed to classify isolated and/

By Dan Flynn

/ 14 Aug 2025

Kratom’s 7-OH made illegal in Florida under emergency rule

Wyoming County decides to go with a local expansion of Food Freedom, bypassing food safety provisions

Effective immediately, Wyoming home-based businesses, also known as Home Occupations, are now a use-by right in all areas of unincorporated Laramie County, the Laramie County Board of Commissioners has announced.

By Dan Flynn

/ 13 Aug 2025

Wyoming County decides to go with a local expansion of Food Freedom, bypassing food safety provisions

Six years of appeals ends with the Parnell brothers still in federal prison

The three-judge panel that heard oral arguments in the habeas corpus appeals of Peanut Corporation of America’s Stewart and Michael Parnell took 320 days to write a 43-page opinion,

By Dan Flynn

/ 12 Aug 2025

After billions spent on mass culling, a vaccination strategy will be up next

With no person-to-person spread, the health risk to humans remaining low, and the 15-month emergency human response to H5N1 avian flu over, this summer’s break in reported infections to

By Dan Flynn

/ 11 Aug 2025

After billions spent on mass culling, a vaccination strategy will be up next

EFSA’s novel food review has the cell-cultured industry waiting in a ‘trough of disillusionment’

A year ago, applications for a cell-cultured foie gras product were dropped off at the United States Food and Drug Administration, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA), the Food Standards Agency

By Dan Flynn

/ 7 Aug 2025

EFSA’s novel food review has the cell-cultured industry waiting in a ‘trough of disillusionment’

Did Kraft Heinz employee termination violate the Food Safety Modernization Act?

In 2019 and 2020, Wilbert Finley was a production manager with food safety responsibilities at Kraft Heinz’s Newberry, SC, plant, producing bacon and other packaged meats. Things became contentious

By Dan Flynn

/ 31 Jul 2025

Did Kraft Heinz employee termination violate the Food Safety Modernization Act?

The FDA recommends scheduling kratom’s 7-OH under the Controlled Substances Act

“Gas station heroin” took another hit on Wednesday as HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s FDA recommended a scheduling action to control certain 7-hydroxymitragynine (also known as 7-OH ) products

By Dan Flynn

/ 30 Jul 2025

The FDA recommends scheduling kratom’s 7-OH under the Controlled Substances Act

Acting deputy for food safety named by USDA while wait for Brashears confirmation continues

In what may be a sign that the USDA is in for a long wait before the U.S. Senate confirms Mindy Brashears as Under Secretary for Food Safety, Trey

By Dan Flynn

/ 29 Jul 2025

Acting deputy for food safety named by USDA while wait for Brashears confirmation continues

Lawsuit raises questions about JBS’s commitment to safety at beef plant

Salima Jandali was born in Morocco and immigrated to the United States as a child. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and anthropology from the University

By Dan Flynn

/ 28 Jul 2025

Lawsuit raises questions about JBS’s commitment to safety at beef plant

More support for FSIS to share jurisdiction for animal abuse with states

The 2-year-old petition from Animal Partisan to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), calling upon the agency to share its federal jurisdiction over animal abuse with state

By Dan Flynn

/ 24 Jul 2025

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Dan Flynn

The role of public sector unions in food safety renews a debate that began 90 years ago

FSIS on the frontline as New World screwworm threatens food safety in the United States

Kratom’s 7-OH made illegal in Florida under emergency rule

Wyoming County decides to go with a local expansion of Food Freedom, bypassing food safety provisions

Six years of appeals ends with the Parnell brothers still in federal prison

After billions spent on mass culling, a vaccination strategy will be up next

EFSA’s novel food review has the cell-cultured industry waiting in a ‘trough of disillusionment’

Did Kraft Heinz employee termination violate the Food Safety Modernization Act?

The FDA recommends scheduling kratom’s 7-OH under the Controlled Substances Act

Acting deputy for food safety named by USDA while wait for Brashears confirmation continues

Lawsuit raises questions about JBS’s commitment to safety at beef plant

More support for FSIS to share jurisdiction for animal abuse with states