Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the Theragun Cyber Monday 2021 sale—its biggest sale of the year. Through Tuesday, November 30, Therabody is offering up to $200 off its Theragun massage guns, RecoveryAir boots, WaveSeries rollers, and TheraOne topicals and ingestibles. Shop the sale while you still can!For those in need of…
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Jamie Chung just gave us a peek into her fertility and motherhood journey. On Thursday, the actor, 38, shared an Instagram post of herself with one of her newborn twin babies (whose face was covered with a digital sticker for privacy) and the caption “Every fertility journey is unique, it’s a tender topic. This would…
The biggest shopping weekend of the year is officially over, and you have just a few more hours to stock up on the best Nordstrom Cyber Monday deals of 2021. (Shhh, you didn’t hear this from us, but these might be even better than the Black Friday sales.) Nordstrom is one of our favorite retailers…
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Recall expanded to 2 million pounds of ham and pepperoni over Listeria concerns
by Sue JonesThe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has expanded a recall to more than 2 million pounds, with an expanded list of fully cooked ham and pepperoni products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. A wide variety of products under many brands are implicated. Alexander & Hornung, of St. Clair…
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No Senate action yet to confirm Esteban as USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety
by Sue JonesThe U.S. Senate will have to step it up a notch to confirm Dr. Jose Emilio Esteban as the USDA’s Under Secretary for Food Safety before the year ends. President Biden nominated Esteban to serve in the post Nov.12. Esteban is currently Chief Scientist for USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), a position he…
Food safety officials in New Zealand are probing a series of botched recalls involving sugar because of lead contamination linked to transportation. In early November, Chelsea Sugar recalled specific batches of Chelsea, Pams and Woolworths brand raw and brown sugar because of lead contamination. Chelsea Sugar detected the issue as part of routine testing of…
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FDA sends warning to food firms over import violations and Salmonella in retail sampling
by Sue JonesAs part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are not issued until a company…
Pink, who in addition to her voice is normally known for her impressively acrobatic performances, will be spending six weeks on crutches, according to her recent Instagram post.The singer, 42, shared that she’s spent the last week recovering from hip surgery—and it’s been a rough road. “It was a brutal first week full of tears…
The USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) has awarded the Alabama Cooperative Extension System with a $300,000 food safety grant. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System is the primary outreach and engagement organization for the land-grant mission of Alabama A&M University and Auburn University in cooperation with Tuskegee University. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System…
An outbreak of Salmonella has ended in Sweden with officials unable to find the source of infection. In October, 40 people became ill with monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium with the majority falling sick in the first half of the month. An earlier update identified 33 patients. Cases were linked by whole genome sequencing. As no new…