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And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
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Horseshoe Crabs are in Danger Because Everyone Wants Their Blood
by Chris Lovenko
December 17, 2021

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/17/228 ... ontroversy

Introduction:
(The Verge) Conservationists fear that horseshoe crabs, a 450-million-year-old living fossil, will be pushed to the brink of extinction because of the value of their blood to the pharmaceutical industry. Horseshoe crab blood provides a natural source of limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) which is used to test vaccines, drugs, and medical devices to ensure that they aren’t contaminated with dangerous bacterial toxins called endotoxins. With hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs captured and bled of their milky-blue blood each year, conservation groups are now stepping up their advocacy efforts and taking legal action to help save horseshoe crabs and the other species that rely on them.

Fortunately, there’s already an alternative to horseshoe crab blood: in the late 1990s, biologists at the University of Singapore created a synthetic version of the LAL called recombinant Factor C (rFC). Multiple studies show that rFC is just as effective as horseshoe crab-derived LAL, and it is currently commercially available.

Some 60 countries have approved rFC for use, including the EU countries and China. But in the US, conservationists were dealt a setback last year when Maryland-based US Pharmacopeia (USP), an organization that sets guidelines for the pharmaceutical industry, decided it needed to see more data before it would put rFC on equal footing with LAL. Companies can still opt to use rFC as a substitute for LAL (Eli Lilly already does) — but only if they go through additional bureaucratic processes first. Many environmentalists see the lack of approval by USP as short-sighted and unwise.
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That there is a synthetic alternative to harvesting hoarseshoe crab blood and the practice hasn't been banned globally is a crime against ecology.
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Check your packaged salads: CDC warns of 2 listeria outbreaks
Source: AP

U.S. health officials are warning the public not to eat certain brands of packaged salads, which they say are linked to two small, long-running listeria outbreaks in which three people died.

One outbreak is linked to packaged salads produced by Fresh Express and another has been tied to packaged salads produced by Dole. The outbreaks are caused by different strains of listeria bacteria and there’s no known link between them, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.

In the outbreak linked to Fresh Express, ten people in eight states were identified in the outbreak between 2016 and late October of this year. All were hospitalized and one person, in Pennsylvania, died.

This week, Fresh Express recalled many brands of packaged salad products with product codes Z324 through Z350. The CDC is telling people not to eat, sell, or serve any recalled products.
Read more: https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/12/25 ... outbreaks/
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Yuli Ban wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 1:05 am
What's next? The Asian flurona, right? :?
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More than 28,000 pounds of ground beef recalled in seven states over E. coli concerns
Source: The Hill
More than 28,000 pounds of ground beef products are being recalled in seven states due to possible E. coli contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) announced.

Oregon-based Interstate Meat Dist. Inc decided to pull approximately 28,356 pounds of products produced on Dec. 20 after a retail package of ground beef was purchased and submitted to a third-party laboratory for microbiological analysis and tested positive for E. coli.

“FSIS conducted an assessment of the third-party laboratory’s accreditation and methodologies and determined the results were actionable,” the agency said.

The raw, ground beef items were sold by Albertsons, Kroger, Walmart and WinCo under store brand labels and were shipped to retail locations in Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. The products subject to recall bear the establishment number “EST.965” inside the USDA mark of inspection or printed next to the time stamp and use or freeze by date.

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New findings 'strongly suggest' Epstein-Barr virus may help trigger multiple sclerosis

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/epstein- ... -1.6314128
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Xyls wrote: Sat Jan 15, 2022 3:50 am New findings 'strongly suggest' Epstein-Barr virus may help trigger multiple sclerosis

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/epstein- ... -1.6314128
yeah just saw this and thought "holy crap, this could be amazing. In twenty years, can you imagine MS goes the way of Polio and small pox?"

now to catch ALS. that would be an amazing future to see come true.
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