Flu season is imminent, and CDC continues to remind that everyone 6 months and older to get vaccinated. It’s too soon to know whether the strains will be as bad as last year, but even when flu activity is low, people get sick.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has found more than a dozen food manufacturers in the U.S. received vegetables from McCain that were potentially contaminated with salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes bacteria.
In a recent study, every person out of the group of 8 had small bits of plastics in their stool, researchers said. More than 95 percent of the particles came from plastics used in food packaging and storage.
