“We will look for ways to adapt or streamline our operations, but the truth is, we are always doing that so we run an efficient business already,” said Skip Hulett, NatureSweet’s chief legal officer. “Produce is not a large-margin business. We’re determining what portion of the cost we could absorb, but these added costs will most certainly need to be passed on to the consumer.”
Separately, pigs with various gene modifications for xenotransplant research live on a Revivicor farm in Virginia, including a GalSafe pig that was the source for aat NYU Langone Health.
And that begs the question: After removing transplantable organs, could the pig be used for meat?No. The strong anesthesia used so the animals feel no pain during organ removal means they don’t meet USDA rules for drug-free food, said United Therapeutics spokesman Dewey Steadman.The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
. Pieces of plastic in BanquetIn recent weeks, U.S. consumers have seen high-profile food recalls for an unappetizing reason: They’re contaminated with foreign objects that have no place on a dinner plate. And while no one wants to bite down on
in smoked sausage, this type of contamination is one of the top reasons for food recalls in the U.S.
Food safety experts and federal agencies use the terms “extraneous” or “foreign” materials to describe things like metal fragments, rubber gaskets and bits of bugs that somehow make it into packaged goods.He was handed over to the Red Cross and taken to an area controlled by the Israeli military. “I get out of the vehicle, I look around, I see the sky, the sun. The first time, I feel safe,” he said, adding that he asked an Israeli soldier if he could hug her.
“It’s the first time in forever I feel love and warmth,” he said.Shem Tov was taken to meet his parents —
had kept his bedroom as he left it, with instructions that nobody should touch or clean it until he came home and did it himself.The untouched bedroom of hostage Omer Shem-Tov is seen in Herzliya, Israel, June 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)