by Jacqueline Kochak | May 8, 2019 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, China, Featured, Food Security
‘Like Ebola’ in its devastation: What started with a few dozen dead pigs in northeastern China is sending shock waves through the global food chain. Last August, a Chinese farm was found to harbor African swine fever, the first ever occurrence of...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Apr 17, 2019 | Bobs Blog, Featured, Food Industry Technology, Food Retail, Food Safety, Food Technology, One Health, Public Health, Restaurant Security
Some packages of Chips Ahoy! Chewy chocolate chip cookies have been recalled nationwide due to possible contamination with an “unexpected solidified ingredient.” The company did not specify what the ingredient was, but said it received reports of...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Feb 28, 2019 | Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Food Safety, Humanitarian Crises, Public Health, The Future, Venezuela, Water Safety, Weather Emergencies
And political campaigns are paying attention: Welcome to the new frontier of campaign tech — a loosely regulated world in which simply downloading a weather app or game, connecting to Wi-Fi at a coffee shop or powering up a home router can allow a data broker to...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Feb 25, 2019 | Humanitarian Crises, Venezuela
The situation in and around Venezuela continues to deteriorate. Violent clashes occurred over the weekend as humanitarian aid was excluded from being brought in through Columbia. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Bogota, Colombia, to discuss potential...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Feb 25, 2019 | Water Safety
Last March, the Pentagon reported that the water at or around at least 126 military installations contains potentially harmful levels of perfluorinated compounds, which have been linked to cancers and developmental delays in fetuses and infants. These included 36...
