3 Dead In Listeria Outbreak Linked To Burger Chain’s Milkshakes
LOADINGERROR LOADING Health officials in Washington state are blaming a burger chain’s ice cream machines for a listeria outbreak that hospitalized six people, three of whom died. The bacteria were found in all milkshake flavors sold at a Frugals restaurant in Tacoma, the state’s Health Department said Friday, adding that the ice cream machines “were […]
Opinion | ‘Sit Down, Shut Up and Sign, Don’t Make Waves’: What We Heard This Week
“Some nursing homes and chains will hire medical directors to just do what I call the three S’s: Sit down. Shut up and sign. Don’t make waves.” — Karl Steinberg, MD, immediate past president of the Society for Post-Acute and Long Term Care Medicine, on a proposed bill requiring all 15,000 Medicare-approved nursing homes to […]
Creating more resilient supply chains through nature-inspired design: Diverse supply chains that mimic ecological systems can more readily adapt to unforeseeable disruptions
A new paper in Nature lays out the way natural ecosystems parallel U.S. supply chains and how American cities can use these tools to strengthen their supply chains. The paper, “Supply chain diversity buffers cities against food shocks,” is co-authored by Benjamin Ruddell, director of the FEWSION Project and the School of Informatics, Computing, and […]