Relevant Steps to Improve the Safety of Your Business

The very term safety means being able to protect something you care about from substantial harm. Sometimes, this means protecting it in a physical or emotional sense, however, in some cases, it means keeping it financially safe and out of harm’s way. When running a business, you’re faced with all three of these tasks.


Hormel Food Corp. Recalls More Than 228,614 Pounds of Canned Pork and Chicken Products

If you’re a fan of spam, listen up. Hormel Food Corp., based in Fremont, NE, just issued a recall of “approximately 228,614 pounds of canned pork and chicken products” over concerns that the products may be contaminated with chunks of metal and other foreign matter. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the issue was discovered after the company “received four consumer complaints stating that metal objects were found in the canned products.” FSIS was later notified of the issue on May 25, 2018.







McDonald’s Removes Salads As Intestinal Parasite Outbreak Continues in Midwest

Are you a fan of McDonald’s salads? Well, you may want to find an alternative lunch choice for the time being. According to the company, the popular fast food chain recently pulled salads from “3,000 restaurants in the Midwest after health experts announced that more than 100 people had been infected by an intestinal parasite in recent weeks.” The intestinal parasite wreaking havoc throughout Illinois, Iowa, and other states is cyclosporiasis. So far there have been confirmed reports of “15 infections in Iowa and 90 others in Illinois.” According to health officials, “everyone who became ill in Iowa and about a quarter of those who became sick in Illinois said they had eaten McDonald’s salads in the days before symptoms appeared.”