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.

Call for year-round ‘spring’ lambs divides sheep industry

Messing with the definition for “spring lambs” will only enrich foreign importers while fooling American consumers, say domestic producers who’ve submitted comments opposing a petition to make “spring lambs”

By Dan Flynn

/ 24 Oct 2019

Call for year-round ‘spring’ lambs divides sheep industry

District’s popular Persian restaurant chain is not having a good year

The Moby Dick House of Kabob, a Persian restaurant chain with two dozen locations in the Washington D.C. area, has had 30 good years, but this is not one

By Dan Flynn

/ 23 Oct 2019

District’s popular Persian restaurant chain is not having a good year

USDA has the goods to shut down all the Amos Miller enterprises, U.S. Attorney claims

The federal government says it’s time the federal courts drop a permanent injunction on Amos Miller and Miller’s Organic Farm. The United States began its current round with

By Dan Flynn

/ 22 Oct 2019

USDA has the goods to shut down all the Amos Miller enterprises, U.S. Attorney claims

Letter from the Editor: It was time to draw the line

Opinion News involves various facts around certain events put into some context. Food Safety News usually does not have a problem putting these factors together for our readers, but I

By Dan Flynn

/ 20 Oct 2019

Letter from the Editor: It was time to draw the line

Coalition called “The Baby Food Council” says it will take on heavy metals

A coalition of companies and others formed last January announced Thursday it was taking on “the challenge of reducing heavy metals in young children’s food. With the U.S.

By Dan Flynn

/ 18 Oct 2019

Coalition called “The Baby Food Council” says it will take on heavy metals

Consumers show they know their meat with spot on complaint about an import

A consumer complaint has led to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and a recall of a small quantity of

By Dan Flynn

/ 17 Oct 2019

Consumers show they know their meat with spot on complaint about an import

Ranchers ask federal court to block RFID traceability tags for cattle, bison

For the cause of traceability, radio frequency identification (RFID) ear tags will be required in American beef cattle, dairy cows, and bison by Jan. 1, 2023. Unless, of course, a

By Dan Flynn

/ 16 Oct 2019

Ranchers ask federal court to block RFID traceability tags for cattle, bison

Taco Bell claims credit for swift recall of seasoned beef with metal shavings

An “undetermined amount” of seasoned beef produced by Kenosha Beef International for Taco Bell was recalled late Monday, and by early Tuesday, identified as 2 million pounds of meat that

By Dan Flynn

/ 15 Oct 2019

Taco Bell claims credit for swift recall of seasoned beef with metal shavings

JBS USA drops ractopamine amidst trade opportunities with China

Mega-producer JBS USA has banned the use of ractopamine in the hogs it purchases because it sees a trade opportunity with China where the growth drug remains prohibited. JBS, owned

By Dan Flynn

/ 14 Oct 2019

JBS USA drops ractopamine amidst trade opportunities with China

There isn’t more Hepatitis A risk for restaurant workers; but they can spread it faster than others

Opinion America’s food safety attorney Bill Marler, who by way of proper disclosure is also the publisher of Food Safety News, wants food handlers vaccinated for Hepatitis A. Fact

By Dan Flynn

/ 11 Oct 2019

There isn’t more Hepatitis A risk for restaurant workers; but they can spread it faster than others

Rubio and Menendez call for foreign investment probe of JBS, SA

Two U.S. Senators want an interagency committee authorized to review certain transactions to conduct an open-ended review of Brazil’s JBS S.A., which owns Greeley, CO-based JBS USA.

By Dan Flynn

/ 9 Oct 2019

Rubio and Menendez call for foreign investment probe of JBS, SA

Tip Top Poultry recall expands reach: nothing official yet on connection to August outbreak

Tip Top Poultry Inc.’s Rockmart, GA, plant has updated its Sept. 28 recall of an undetermined amount of ready-to-eat (RTE) poultry products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes,

By Dan Flynn

/ 9 Oct 2019

Tip Top Poultry recall expands reach: nothing official yet on connection to August outbreak

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Dan Flynn

Call for year-round ‘spring’ lambs divides sheep industry

District’s popular Persian restaurant chain is not having a good year

USDA has the goods to shut down all the Amos Miller enterprises, U.S. Attorney claims

Letter from the Editor: It was time to draw the line

Coalition called “The Baby Food Council” says it will take on heavy metals

Consumers show they know their meat with spot on complaint about an import

Ranchers ask federal court to block RFID traceability tags for cattle, bison

Taco Bell claims credit for swift recall of seasoned beef with metal shavings

JBS USA drops ractopamine amidst trade opportunities with China

There isn’t more Hepatitis A risk for restaurant workers; but they can spread it faster than others

Rubio and Menendez call for foreign investment probe of JBS, SA

Tip Top Poultry recall expands reach: nothing official yet on connection to August outbreak