Author: Jawdah Hannad Basara

A food recall that involves something as commonplace as printing ink rather than bacteria or allergens causes a certain level of anxiety. Listeria and Salmonella are terms that evoke a familiar fear. Ink sounds almost innocuous, more like a printer issue than a food safety issue. And yet here we are, with Hodo Inc. removing over 10,000 cases of its Chili Crisp Lightly Fried Tofu from stores in 29 states due to the possibility that the product itself contained ink from the packaging. The 8-ounce package with UPC 850565007842 is the subject of the recall, which was started by the…

When you walk into a Sam’s Club on a Saturday morning, you will witness the same routine at every register: a member using the Scan & Go app to scan items, avoiding the line, and believing that the fifteen dollars a month is already worth it. The entire business model revolves around that sense of receiving something in return for the membership fee. The rest is commentary. Therefore, it’s important to pay attention if Walmart decides to alter the way that emotion is created. The company announced on August 20 that starting in 2027, Sam’s Club will use Scintilla, its…

The Mainstays nine-drawer fabric dresser appears to be a good purchase when you walk into practically any Walmart store. About $80, a black metal frame with brown or black fabric drawers that is light enough to assemble in an afternoon. Realistic. Reasonably priced. It’s the kind of item that a parent would buy for their child’s room without much thought. The issue is that it topples over so easily and dangerously that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has now issued two recalls, the most recent of which covered 165,250 units and was announced on August 27. May 2026 saw the…

During a five-day window in mid-May, Frigorifico Gorina SAIC in Argentina packed cardboard cases of boneless top sirloin, eye round, knuckle cuts, and flat. The boxes moved silently. After passing through customs and entering the country, they traveled to distributors and retailers in Florida and Texas. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service claims that they were denied the federally mandated import reinspection. Nearly 29,628 pounds of raw beef, all bearing the Argentine establishment number “EST. N° OF. 2025,” are currently being recalled because they are deemed to be at the highest risk level by FSIS. The company responsible for…

A cardboard case of buffalo chicken rangoon that should never have left the warehouse might still be in a restaurant walk-in freezer somewhere in New England. It was labeled with a federal inspection number that doesn’t belong to anyone with a federal grant of inspection, packed 100 pieces per box, and stamped with a sell-by date that extends into 2027. The recall, which covers about 24,900 pounds of frozen buffalo chicken products manufactured by Shanghai Ravioli Corporation, a Boston-based food company, was announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on August 26. Benedetto’s Buffalo Chicken Mozzarella Stick and Buffalo Chicken…

Olivia Rodrigo told Cosmopolitan earlier this year that getting into a car with friends, driving through a Taco Bell drive-thru, and sitting in the parking lot with a Baja Blast was her favorite way to listen to a new album, whether it was her own or someone else’s. “That would be my dream,” she replied, “if people listened to my album top to bottom in their car drinking a Baja Blast.” It seems that Taco Bell was listening. The outcome is “You Seem Pretty Pink for a Baja Blast,” a limited-edition beverage that combines pink lemonade with the well-known tropical-lime…

A Salmonella outbreak linked to imported eggs has now sickened nearly 500 people in the UK, and the number is still rising. A single bacterial cluster was responsible for 259 cases and one death, according to UK health officials as of August 25. When two recently discovered related clusters are added, the overall picture is 474 confirmed cases, two fatalities, and a public health investigation that began more than a year ago. The length of time this went unnoticed at scale is especially startling. August 2025 is when some of the investigation’s earliest samples were collected. The nearly identical genetic…

Twenty-five-year-old Madison Bailey has eight million Instagram followers, a recurring role in one of Netflix’s most popular youth dramas, and an exercise regimen that would wear most people out. She hikes trails in Los Angeles, lifts weights with her Outer Banks co-stars, and gets ginseng shots at craft services rather than the Red Bulls everyone else is reaching for. In all honesty, she takes care of herself. However, over the course of the last year or so, a growing segment of the internet has determined that whether or not her body has changed is the most intriguing aspect of her.…

When a woman steps on the scale and discovers that her weight has increased by twenty, thirty, or even forty pounds since having her IUD implanted, she visits her gynecologist in search of clarification. She is told the same thing most of the time: the IUD doesn’t make her gain weight. According to science, this is true. However, lived experience and science don’t always communicate in the same way. Levonorgestrel, a synthetic progestin, is released straight into the uterus by hormonal IUDs like Mirena, Liletta, Kyleena, and Skyla. Because the dosage is lower than that of oral contraceptives, manufacturers and…

Starting an antidepressant, feeling like yourself again after months of fog, and then stepping on the scale to discover a number that doesn’t add up can cause a certain kind of frustration. That experience is more frequent than most pharmacists at the pickup counter for patients taking Celexa, the brand name for citalopram. Celexa is a member of the group of drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. The medication keeps more serotonin available to control mood, sleep, and overall mental stability by stopping the brain from reabsorbing it too quickly. For many people, it performs this function…