by Jacqueline Kochak | Aug 28, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Employee Safety, Food Safety, Food Security, Humanitarian Crises, Public Health, Tariffs, The Future
And scientists worry trade issue will further slow exchange of info: For over a year, the Chinese government has withheld lab samples of a rapidly evolving influenza virus from the United States — specimens needed to develop vaccines and treatments, according to...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Aug 22, 2018 | Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Employee Safety, Food Safety, Humanitarian Crises, Just Interesting, Public Health, Threat Intelligence
Woman says she should have been warned: General Mills has been hit with a class action lawsuit that alleges the company should have warned consumers that Cheerios contain tiny amounts of glyphosate, a widely used herbicide that may be a potential human carcinogen. The...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Aug 21, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Employee Safety, Food Safety, Public Health, Tariffs, The Future, Weather Emergencies
Seizure of white farms begins: The first salvos of what will be a very ugly campaign commenced with the seizures of two white-owned farms in South Africa. In both cases, the below-market-value buy-out offers were refused. Violence has been escalating over the last...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Aug 13, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Employee Safety, Food Safety, Humanitarian Crises, Restaurant Security, Threat Intelligence
One study says ‘yes’: Forget Activia. Crickets may soon become the next probiotic trend. According to a study published in Scientific Reports in July — the first clinical trial of its kind — crickets may actually increase enzymes in the stomach that aid...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Jul 17, 2018 | Bobs Blog, Employee Safety, Food Safety, Food Security, Operations Security, Terrorism
What if a dirty bomb went off in your food facility? Two security experts from the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory drove to San Antonio in 2017 with a sensitive mission: to retrieve dangerous nuclear materials from a nonprofit research lab there....
by Jacqueline Kochak | Jul 6, 2018 | Bobs Blog, Employee Safety, Food Safety, Food Security, Humanitarian Crises, Just Interesting, Public Health, Restaurant Security, Tariffs, Threat Intelligence, Water Safety, Weather Emergencies
Basic sewage and water infrastructure lacking: Many communities from the Black Belt to Appalachia lack basic sewage and water infrastructure. In economically distressed regions like Lowndes County in Alabama, this lack has led to a surge in poverty-related tropical...
