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.

Post-mortem inspection changes proposed for swine slaughter operations

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a rule to change post-mortem (after death) inspection requirements for swine slaughter establishments “to remove mandatory mandibular lymph node incision

By Dan Flynn

/ 28 Aug 2025

Post-mortem inspection changes proposed for swine slaughter operations

Section 453 is the latest battleground over when pesticide makers can be sued

Newton’s Third Law of Motion is that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. An example of this is currently playing out with pesticides and food

By Dan Flynn

/ 27 Aug 2025

Section 453 is the latest battleground over when pesticide makers can be sued

Public health kept the New World screwworm’s arrival in the USA a secret for 20 days

When Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said on Aug. 15 that the New World screwworm had not been reported or detected in the United States “in animals,” she failed to

By Dan Flynn

/ 26 Aug 2025

Public health kept the New World screwworm’s arrival in the USA a secret for 20 days

Dietary Guidelines are not coming out for summer, but maybe before winter

If you are waiting for the promised summer release of the updated Dietary Guidelines for Americans, you can stop. The end of October is the new promised release date, according

By Dan Flynn

/ 25 Aug 2025

Dietary Guidelines are not coming out for summer, but maybe before winter

USDA’s meat inspections continue at brisk pace during first half of fiscal year

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has reported enforcement data for half of fiscal year 2025, which is a little light on significant actions. The agency’s

By Dan Flynn

/ 21 Aug 2025

USDA’s meat inspections continue at brisk pace during first half of fiscal year

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’

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Dan Flynn

Post-mortem inspection changes proposed for swine slaughter operations

Section 453 is the latest battleground over when pesticide makers can be sued

Public health kept the New World screwworm’s arrival in the USA a secret for 20 days

Dietary Guidelines are not coming out for summer, but maybe before winter

USDA’s meat inspections continue at brisk pace during first half of fiscal year

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’