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.

Letter From The Editor: The dirt on your boots round table

Opinion After the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law, somebody I don’t remember who told me there was one ticklish part. FSMA for the first time

By Dan Flynn

/ 1 Nov 2020

Letter From The Editor: The dirt on your boots round table

Defense: Felony charges against ex-Blue Bell president should go away for being “time-barred”

Paul Kruse, former President of Blue Bell Creameries, remains free on a $50,000 appearance bond that restricts his travel to Texas. His “arraignment by a video” is set for

By Dan Flynn

/ 30 Oct 2020

Defense: Felony charges against ex-Blue Bell president should go away for being “time-barred”

Kruse defense team is ready to tell what really happened during 2015 listeria outbreak

When he makes his first court appearance tomorrow in Austin, TX, former Blue Bell Creameries President Paul Kruse will not be alone. Chris Flood of Houston and John D. Cline

By Dan Flynn

/ 28 Oct 2020

Kruse defense team is ready to tell what really happened during 2015 listeria outbreak

Faster line speeds may not be the food safety issue some thought

During the modernization era for meat and poultry, how fast carcasses are moved across the slaughter floor is an issue that’s created controversies involving both food safety and worker

By Dan Flynn

/ 27 Oct 2020

Faster line speeds may not be the food safety issue some thought

David Tharp tells how IAFP’s 2020 Annual Meeting virtually came about

For the first time in 75 years, the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) isn’t filling the hotel and conference rooms of a lucky city with close to 5,

By Dan Flynn

/ 26 Oct 2020

Activists successfully defend California law imposed on sale of out-of-state farm products

Sometimes lawyers talk about being able to use a knothole in the law that allows them to pull through much more of their own arguments than one might ordinarily expect.

By Dan Flynn

/ 23 Oct 2020

Activists successfully defend California law imposed on sale of out-of-state farm products

What Hep A has taught us that can be used against COVID-19

ROSEMONT, IL — Roslyn Stone, who manages health incidents for many of the nation’s largest restaurants and foodservice chains as the chief operating officer for Zero Hour Health, clearly has

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Oct 2020

What Hep A has taught us that can be used against COVID-19

South Carolina using ‘virtual food safety checks’ to inspect restaurants

ROSEMONT, IL — Food safety inspections for the past 100 years or so have generally fallen into one or the other of just two categories. Meat inspection since the 1906 Federal

By Dan Flynn

/ 19 Oct 2020

South Carolina using ‘virtual food safety checks’ to inspect restaurants

J&F pays for making those ‘Manhattan-style’ bribes to Brazilian officials

As it turned out, Manhattan bank accounts and real estate were critical assets in bribing high government officials in a meat scandal in Brazil. And for that, J&F

By Dan Flynn

/ 16 Oct 2020

J&F pays for making those ‘Manhattan-style’ bribes to Brazilian officials

Does sampling, testing make romaine purchased in Canada safer than that in U.S.?

Will it soon be safer to purchase romaine lettuce in Canada than the United States, even if it’s all grown in Californa’s Salinas Valley? Before anyone could ask

By Dan Flynn

/ 15 Oct 2020

Does sampling, testing make romaine purchased in Canada safer than that in U.S.?

‘Ineffective trial counsel’ gets Stewart Parnell the hearing that could set him free

U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas Q. Langstaff has ordered Stewart Parnell returned to the C.B. King Federal Courthouse in Albany, GA, on Feb. 24, 2021, for a hearing that

By Dan Flynn

/ 14 Oct 2020

‘Ineffective trial counsel’ gets Stewart Parnell the hearing that could set him free

Fresh produce industry never likes testing such as that now imposed by Canada

The nation’s only produce surveillance program did not survive the first term of the Obama administration. When it did exist, USDA’s Microbiological Data Program (MDP) used to conduct

By Dan Flynn

/ 13 Oct 2020

Fresh produce industry never likes testing such as that now imposed by Canada

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Dan Flynn

Letter From The Editor: The dirt on your boots round table

Defense: Felony charges against ex-Blue Bell president should go away for being “time-barred”

Kruse defense team is ready to tell what really happened during 2015 listeria outbreak

Faster line speeds may not be the food safety issue some thought

David Tharp tells how IAFP’s 2020 Annual Meeting virtually came about

Activists successfully defend California law imposed on sale of out-of-state farm products

What Hep A has taught us that can be used against COVID-19

South Carolina using ‘virtual food safety checks’ to inspect restaurants

J&F pays for making those ‘Manhattan-style’ bribes to Brazilian officials

Does sampling, testing make romaine purchased in Canada safer than that in U.S.?

‘Ineffective trial counsel’ gets Stewart Parnell the hearing that could set him free

Fresh produce industry never likes testing such as that now imposed by Canada