by Jacqueline Kochak | Aug 15, 2018 | Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Food Safety, Food Security, Humanitarian Crises, Public Health, Tariffs, Terrorism, Threat Intelligence
Tariffs exacerbating cracks in economy: The trade war between the U.S. and China continues to heat up. China’s debt and need for a constant inflow of foreign currency (largely U.S. dollars) continues to cause unanticipated consequences to the Chinese economy. The...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Mar 26, 2018 | Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Food Security, Public Health, Terrorism, Uncategorized, Water Safety
Or care to try a tarantula instead? Old men fry tarantulas in chili oil. People snack on crispy grasshoppers like they would a bag of Cheetos. Buckets of crickets, grasshoppers and giant water bugs lay next to yams, cilantro and curry leaves in the intimidating...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Sep 21, 2017 | Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Food Safety, Food Security, Public Health, Terrorism, Threat Intelligence, Uncategorized
Rogue’s gallery: Cantaloupe growers Eric and Ryan Jensen were arrested in 2013 for being the source of a listeria outbreak that sickened 147 people and killed 33—the most deadly case of foodborne illness in the U.S, since 1925. The brothers served six months of...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Aug 4, 2017 | Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Food Safety, Food Security, Public Health
AMPT Coffee advertised as ‘natural testosterone booster’: AMPT Coffee is the third coffee product in the past year to be recalled because laboratory analysis found it contains a prescription drug that is similar to the active ingredient in Viagra. The...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Jun 28, 2017 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Food Security, Personnel Security, Threat Intelligence
Shipping giant Maersk among those affected: Shipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, which handles one out of seven containers shipped globally, said on Tuesday that this week’s cyber attack had caused outages at its computer systems across the world. Organizations...