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...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Apr 23, 2018 | Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Terrorism, Weird Stuff
New tariffs imposed by China have immediate consequences: U.S. ships carrying cargoes of sorghum had to change course after Beijing imposed hefty anti-dumping deposits on U.S. imports of the grain. Sorghum is an animal feed and one of the billions of dollars in export...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Apr 20, 2018 | Animal Feed Safety, Bobs Blog, Food Safety, Public Health, Restaurant Security, Terrorism, Uncategorized, Weird Stuff
Popular salad ingredient linked to E. coli outbreak: Public health officials are warning consumers not to eat store-bought, chopped romaine lettuce as an E. coli outbreak linked to the vegetable worsens. So far, 53 related E. coli infections have been reported in 16...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Apr 16, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Emergency Response, Food Safety, Food Security, Humanitarian Crises
Part 1: The threat R.A. Norton, Ph.D. Ever been hacked? Russians love to hack our systems, stealing whatever they can. The Russian government claims Russian criminals did the hacking; in truth, in many cases the government and the criminals are one and the same....
by Jacqueline Kochak | Mar 27, 2018 | Animal Feed Safety, Bobs Blog, Food Security, Public Health, Terrorism, Uncategorized
It’s made with banana plant waste: Science has finally led us to one of the greatest innovations of humankind: ice cream that doesn’t melt quickly on a hot day. The secret, according to a new study? Banana plant waste. Not only are researchers saying their new...