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.

Last minute plan to combine hearings for former peanut executives quashed by Magistrate

Starting this morning in federal court in Albany, GA, brothers Stewart and Michael Parnell are getting the week to make collateral attacks on their prison sentences with back-to-back

By Dan Flynn

/ 24 May 2021

Last minute plan to combine hearings for former peanut executives quashed by Magistrate

Enforcement stepped up in past year to protect USDA’s organic label

The USDA’s organic label is likely the most trusted mark of its kind. The organic label has seen steady growth ever since 1990 when Congress passed the Organic Food

By Dan Flynn

/ 19 May 2021

Enforcement stepped up in past year to protect USDA’s organic label

Three additional witnesses sought by Stewart Parnell for next week’s hearing

Three additional witnesses will likely testify at Stewart Parnell’s hearing next Monday to vacate his convictions and sentencing related to multiple federal felonies stemming from a deadly 2008 Salmonella

By Dan Flynn

/ 18 May 2021

Three additional witnesses sought by Stewart Parnell for next week’s hearing

Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock grilled on FDA food safety budget

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT) and House Appropriations Agriculture, Rural Development, Food, and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Chair Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA)

By Dan Flynn

/ 17 May 2021

Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock grilled on FDA food safety budget

Trial postponed for talks over federal meat act felonies

USDA’s Quarterly Enforcement Report showed a criminal felony indictment headed for trial in June, but talks are delaying that. A grand jury indicted Michael and Joel Quattrucci and Rhode

By Dan Flynn

/ 14 May 2021

Trial postponed for talks over federal meat act felonies

Top food safety officials speak to virtual Food Safety Summit

For the 10th year, a panel of the nation’s top food safety officials spoke Wednesday to more than 300 virtual Food Safety Summit attendees. Food and Drug Administration Deputy

By Dan Flynn

/ 12 May 2021

Top food safety officials speak to virtual Food Safety Summit

Parnell brothers exchange exhibit and witness lists with government for Motion 2255 hearings

Two weeks out from the evidentiary hearings that could see a federal magistrate vacate their convictions and sentences, the Parnell brothers have traded witness and exhibit lists with government lawyers.

By Dan Flynn

/ 11 May 2021

Parnell brothers exchange exhibit and witness lists with government for Motion 2255 hearings

Oklahoma v. Tyson, the Bus Loads of Lawyers case, going on 16 years

It’s been almost 16 years since the State of Oklahoma sued most of the nation’s poultry industry-led Tyson Foods for environmental damages to its most popular waters

By Dan Flynn

/ 7 May 2021

Oklahoma v. Tyson, the Bus Loads of Lawyers case, going on 16 years

Ag Secretary Vilsack, Food Safety Deputy Eskin in court defense of new hog inspection program

On the same day that a federal judge in Minnesota issued an order slowing line speeds under the New Swine Inspection Program, attorneys for USDA in California filed a cutting

By Dan Flynn

/ 6 May 2021

Ag Secretary Vilsack, Food Safety Deputy Eskin in court defense of new hog inspection program

Is UFCW v. USDA the end or just the beginning of the great line speed debate?

Seaboard Foods wants to intervene in UFCW v. USDA “to move to stay the effect of the Court’s forthcoming judgment by 10.5 months as to Seaboard, and for

By Dan Flynn

/ 4 May 2021

Is UFCW v. USDA the end or just the beginning of the great line speed debate?

Oregon’s bill to open up data on reportable diseases may have hit snag

Data for foodborne and other reportable diseases in Oregon might take on more clarity if Senate Bill 719 ever gets moving. Time is still on its side, with the Oregon

By Dan Flynn

/ 3 May 2021

Oregon’s bill to open up data on reportable diseases may have hit snag

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Top hearing questions: What did the jury know, why wasn’t the trial moved

Last minute plan to combine hearings for former peanut executives quashed by Magistrate

Enforcement stepped up in past year to protect USDA’s organic label

Three additional witnesses sought by Stewart Parnell for next week’s hearing

Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock grilled on FDA food safety budget

Trial postponed for talks over federal meat act felonies

Top food safety officials speak to virtual Food Safety Summit

Parnell brothers exchange exhibit and witness lists with government for Motion 2255 hearings

Oklahoma v. Tyson, the Bus Loads of Lawyers case, going on 16 years

Ag Secretary Vilsack, Food Safety Deputy Eskin in court defense of new hog inspection program

Is UFCW v. USDA the end or just the beginning of the great line speed debate?

Oregon’s bill to open up data on reportable diseases may have hit snag