After months of diligently isolating, truck driver Tommy Macias, 51, made one error that cost him his life. He went to a barbecue party with some friends. He didn’t know that someone who had tested positive for COVID-19, but showed no symptoms, also was there.“It was all preventable,” said Gustavo Lopez, Macias’ 52-year-old brother-in-law. “That…
A truck driver from California penned a tragic last Facebook post tinged with regret just a day before dying from coronavirus.Tommy Macias, 51, who lived in Los Angeles, said he caught the killer virus at a party in early June as coronavirus restrictions in the state were eased.In the post he admitted he 'f***ed up'…
Three people were killed in the Eastern Cape on Thursday after the brakes of a truck they were in failed, causing it to overturn. The accident happened on Thursday morning on the R410 at Nonesi Pass in Komani, said provincial Department of Transport spokesperson Unathi Binqose. The truck was carrying a full load of maize meal, he…
For 20 years I have been saying some version of the same thing about leafy greens and cattle. Water runs downhill. Cows poop. Lettuce grows at the bottom of the hill. Now FDA’s own scientists have put real numbers on it, and they deserve credit for doing it. A new paper in the Journal of Food
Published: November 08, 2026, 8:00 am Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week Infant formula maker ByHeart has “discontinued” manufacturing its products after getting caught up in an outbreak of infant botulism. ByHeart’s founders started a new company, MeridianMade, earlier this year and announced in late October that it would purchase Dublin-based
Published: November 07, 2026, 9:48 pm The County of San Luis Obispo Department of Public Health is wrapping up its investigation into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Brookshire Farms in San Luis Obispo. Fifteen people are included in the outbreak – five who were laboratory confirmed. The county previously reported that