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The recall for BrucePac, a ready-to-eat food processor, includes products ranging from frozen taquitos to chicken strips added to salads. The company distributed its food to major grocery chains, restaurants, school cafeterias and convenience stores.

Check Your Fridge and Shopping Cart: Here Comes a Massive Food Recall

by Jennifer Porter Gore October 16, 2024October 16, 2024

A new FDA rule could keep cigarettes and other tobacco products out of the hands of minors, but the agency still hasn't moved on a proposed menthol cigarette ban, which has long been a scourge in the Black community.

Not 21? No ID? No Tobacco For You

by Jennifer Porter Gore October 15, 2024October 16, 2024

Although employers and H.R. departments recognize the importance of mental health support in the workplace, it can be more challenging for Black employees to access that support — despite the likelihood they will face racism along with on-the-job mental health issues.

When Mental Health Awareness Meets ‘Working While Black’

by Jennifer Porter Gore October 11, 2024October 14, 2024

Experts say Obamacare-mandated free preventative healthcare visits, like blood pressure screening, can narrow the Black-white healthcare gap. But too often patients are being charged for those visits.

When ‘Free’ Health Care Services Cost Patients Millions

by Jennifer Porter Gore October 3, 2024October 4, 2024

Experts are concerned about the rise of young people doing "whippets" —inhaling flavored nitrous oxide gas from commercial-grade whipped-cream cartriges that are intended for kitchens.

No Laughing Matter: Why Some Worry About Kids Abusing Galaxy Gas

by Jennifer Porter Gore September 26, 2024September 26, 2024

Experts say Abdul Vicks, 25 — who was fatally shot in broad daylight after digging up his rival's grave, then uploading the video to social media — is part of a trend: using social media to escalate street beefs.

‘Metastasizing Disrespect’: How Social Media Turbocharges Gun Violence

by Jennifer Porter Gore September 19, 2024September 24, 2024

Boar's Head Provisions, a giant in the deli meat market, shut down a Virginia plant that had been repeatly cited for violating food safety rules.

Boar’s Head ‘Indefinitely’ Closes Va. Plant Linked to Contaminated Meat

by Jennifer Porter Gore September 16, 2024September 16, 2024

Bacteria and pathogens have been showing up at a growing number of food products that have reached grocery-store shelves this year.

Here’s Why Food Recalls — and Consumers Getting Sick — Are Increasing

by Jennifer Porter Gore September 11, 2024September 11, 2024

Disposable yet essential, diapers are critical to keeping children healthy and dry. But a price spike and shortages at diaper banks is putting the squeeze on low-income families.

Indispensable: Why the Ongoing Diaper Shortage is a Public Health Issue

by Jennifer Porter Gore September 4, 2024September 6, 2024