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Will U.S. go toe-to-toe with China?

by Jacqueline Kochak | Jan 3, 2019 | Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Food Industry Technology, Food Safety, Food Security, Public Health, The Future, Threat Intelligence, Water Safety

If China invades Taiwan, maybe so: The strategic situation relative to Taiwan will likely deteriorate in 2019, as China continues to flex its military muscle. An invasion of the country by China would prove catastrophic to the world economy and could cause the U.S. to...

There’s still a ways to go to make our food safe

by Jacqueline Kochak | Dec 3, 2018 | Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Emergency Response, Food Safety, Tariffs, Threat Intelligence

Traceability and water quality are key areas: Empty produce shelves greeting consumers at grocery stores after the recent romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak show how much work lies ahead to modernize the nation’s food safety laws. In retrospect, passing the Food...

Power from pig poop?

by Jacqueline Kochak | Oct 31, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Food Fraud, Food Safety, Food Security, Humanitarian Crises, Just Interesting, Public Health, Sustainability

Smithfield expanding pilot program: The world’s largest pork company said it’s going whole-hog on converting powerful pig poop gases into power. Smithfield Foods said it is expanding a pilot program that traps methane and burns the gas to generate...

Will migration crisis provoke military intervention?

by Jacqueline Kochak | Sep 26, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Food Safety, Humanitarian Crises, Tariffs, Terrorism, Threat Intelligence, Water Safety

Not likely, but pressure will be applied in other ways: Direct intervention by U.S. military forces in Venezuela is deemed unlikely by this analyst. That being said, the political and humanitarian crises in the South American country is becoming untenable. Venezuela...

Supermarket price wars getting more intense

by Jacqueline Kochak | Jan 9, 2018 | Bobs Blog, Employee Safety, Food Safety, Food Security, Humanitarian Crises, Public Health, Terrorism, Weather Emergencies

And Amazon is not the cause: The price war in the American grocery aisle is getting more intense. And believe it or not, the reason isn’t Amazon.com Inc. Amazon’s debut as a brick-and-mortar grocery chain last year sent tremors through the supermarket industry, with...
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