by Jacqueline Kochak | Oct 23, 2017 | Bobs Blog, Emergency Response, Food Safety, Food Security, Public Health, Terrorism, Threat Intelligence
Preparation is ‘urgent and necessary’: Under the cover of farm facilities, North Korean chemists may be weaponizing some the world’s deadliest diseases—such as smallpox, Black Death and cholera—which could lay waste to millions of people if an epidemic...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Oct 5, 2017 | Bobs Blog, Food Security, Food Technology, Public Health, Uncategorized
Farm income was growing: Puerto Rico’s agriculture industry has been devastated by Hurricane Maria, and that’s a problem because statistics from Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello show that as of late 2016, roughly 7,000 people worked in agriculture. Farm income...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Sep 26, 2017 | Bobs Blog, Emergency Response, Employee Safety, Food Safety, Food Security, Public Health, Threat Intelligence
Some 80 percent of crop value wiped out: Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico last week as a Category 4 storm. Its force and fury stripped every tree of not just the leaves, but also the bark, leaving a rich agricultural region looking like the result of a...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Sep 22, 2017 | Animal Feed Safety, Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Emergency Response, Food Safety, Food Security, Public Health, Threat Intelligence, Water Safety
Power may be out for months: Hurricane Maria’s impact on Puerto Rico will be a continuing story as food security and water safety issues come into focus in coming weeks. The U.S. territory may be without power for months after the island was hit with powerful...