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Official Statement from Dr. Shawki Ibrahim, Ph.D. Environmental Health Sciences and Mareya Ibrahim, Food Safety Expert, in response to Recent E.coli Outbreak with Cut Romaine Lettuce On Friday, April 13th, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed the cause of a multi-state E.coli O157-H7 related to chopped Romaine lettuce, affecting 35 people in 11 states, hospitalizing 22 and causing kidney failure in 3 victims. This outbreak was the result of cases of eating the lettuce from March 22nd – March 31st, 2018, yet the cause of the outbreak was not confirmed until over 3 weeks after the first illness was...

The Revenant had me on the edge of my seat, the classic man vs. nature on steroids, transforming Leonardo DiCaprio into an early 1800’s trapper that literally comes back (The Revenant, from the French term ‘Revenir’ meaning ‘To Return‘, literally from the dead) after being attacked by a bear and left by his group in the harshest conditions. The icing on the cake was that he used his time on the stage accepting his well-deserved Oscar (finally!) to urge people to care about the environment. That’s when I knew we were kindred spirits. “Making ‘The Revenant’ was about man’s relationship...