As Thanksgiving Day approaches and grocery stores gear up to provide shoppers with all their holiday favorites – turkey, potatoes, green beans, pumpkins, and cranberries – most consumers don’t think about the immensely complex supply chain that...
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Recently, hundreds of pounds of salad from Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, and Walmart were recalled due to concerns about salmonella and listeria contamination. The food supplier was a California-based company that was responsible for recalling some...
Friedrich Sertürner was 21 years old, working as a pharmacist's apprentice. He had no formal scientific training. He had a hypothesis that contradicted everything the medical establishment believed about plant-based compounds. When he published his...
Earlier this year, Seattle resident Nathan Gregg made a disconcerting discovery at the downtown municipal dump: a pile of Amazon Go packaged meals stacked nearly 6 feet high. Gregg took photos that clearly show salads, wraps, and sandwiches in their...
The cold chain refers to temperature-controlled logistics of perishable commodities that require a specific climate. More specifically, cold chain temperature monitoringrefers to all of the equipment and resources that are utilized along the supply...
October is American Pharmacists Month! In honor of all those who provide life-saving therapeutics to ensure the public health, we’re posting a 3-part series profiling heroes who made history with their enormous contributions to the pharmaceutical...