25 employees were injured when a toxic chemical leaked at Chempark Dormagen. The emergency services took care of them and they are receiving medical treatment. The Cologne police are investigating the cause of the incident. The employees all wear warning stickers that indicate contamination with phosgene.
It is unknown how serious the injuries are. Chempark's employees wear phosgene warning stickers. The safety measures pre-installed to neutralize the substance would have taken effect immediately. It is not yet known how the incident occurred. The Cologne police are investigating.
Recent changes to Texas Cottage Food Law were effective as of September 1, 2025. Cottage foods are food made in a home kitchen without the benefit of inspection from a local, state, or federal health authority. Raw meat, seafood, raw milk, and ice and ice products are not protected under Cottage Law.
This yearâs El Nino is expected to be among the highest since 1950. Forecasts from meteorological agencies are almost uniform in their alarm. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned it will hit even harder, travel farther and cross borders with devastating speed. Agriculture accounts for around 24% of gross domestic product in Pakistan, Laos and India. Southeast Asian industrial powerhouses such as Indonesia and Vietnam depend on agriculture for 14% and 13%.
The European Parliament voted in favor of an update to the EU's genetic engineering rules. In the future, plants that were bred using a certain form of genetic engineering will no longer have to be specifically labeled and approved separately in the EU. The method is based on the so-called CRISPR-Cas gene scissors, whose inventors received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for it.
Homemade food gifts are safe to eat. The National Center for Home Food Preservation offers guidelines to evaluate the safety of home-canned gifts. Fruit jams and jellies, fruit spreads, and whole fruits are low risk. Low-acid meats, vegetables and mixtures pose a higher risk. Canned breads and cakes are not safe.
Save Our Bacon Act would overturn hundreds of existing animal welfare laws and harm small and mid-sized family farmers. The Farm Bill, which passed the House in late April, is now under review in the Senate. Senator Roger Marshall (R-KS) recently withdrew his support of the Senate version of the bill. The Senate draft of the Farm Bill is expected to be released in June.
Mark Dygdon and Rodrigo Castro were arrested this week. They are accused of importing 7 tons of the date rape drug GBL into New York City. They face 20 years in prison if convicted. Castro pleads not guilty, his lawyer wants to clear his name.
Sean Sherman runs a restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The menu is a declaration of war on white cuisine. Frank Hornig was in the US city for weeks during the winter during the brutal ICE raids. He stumbled into the restaurant by chance in the freezing temperatures and was fascinated.
A three-month-old infant in China had to be admitted to an intensive care unit after his parents fed him with baby milk formula prepared with vegetable juice. His body turned purple, his mouth turned purplish-blue and he was short of breath. Doctors at the hospital diagnosed that the infant had been poisoned with nitrite.