Dan Flynn is editor of the Food Poison Blog. He is an independent journalist, writer, and editor with more than a decade of food safety experience. His Cecil Paul Company has since 1998 helped clients with all sorts of editorial needs. Previously Flynn worked as an editor and staff writer for newspapers throughout the West. His on-scene reporting on the collapse of the Idaho’s Teton Dam and the suicide bombing of Washington State University’s Perham Hall was carried by newspapers around the world and was recognized both times by the Associated Press for Best Reporting on a Deadline. Most of the disasters he attends these days involve food illnesses.