Late post --

Hello Friday...where have you been hiding all week?

Here’s the news from 1 March 2019

https://phc.amedd.army.mil/Periodical%20Library/APHWeeklyUpdate01March2019.pdf

• a 7-month old infant died while with an unlicensed day-care provider on an Army base in Hawaii.  My organization has oversight and policy of Army child care programs.  This incident should draw a lot of attention to the garrison leaders in Hawaii who appear to have ignored clear warning signs that children were in a bad place.
• also making national news this week, the condition of military housing at many posts.  All of the military Services are facing intense criticism for the decrepit condition of some of their family housing...black mold, lead poisoning, bugs, rodents, etc.  As our Army 3-star general said on Wednesday while testifying before a Congressional oversight committee, "we failed, and there's no excuse." 
  
• armed morons in Congo are attacking aide workers at Ebola treatment centers...why they're doing this nobody quite seems to know.
• on Sunday, the good folks in Ohio were reeling from winds in excess of 60 mph on top of temps in the low 20s.  We were all huddled in the house watching trees and tree limbs fall to the ground.  Evidently, the cold wind also created an "ice tsunami" across Lake Erie.
• worth noting:  the FDA is changing regulations for sunscreen.  Currently, only 2 of 16 ingredients in sunscreens you'll find on store shelves are considered safe and effective by the FDA (zinc oxide and titanium dioxide).  Two other ingredients in some sunscreen products are NOT safe (PABA and trolamine salicylate).  Nobody knows if the last 12 ingredients are safe or effective.
• What's In My Food This Week?
• allergens (milk and anchovies) in chicken caesar salads in the mid-west, sold under "Crazy Fresh" and "Jerry's" names
• glass and plastic in your Boston Market boneless pork dinners sold in the grocery (thanks to our Pulaski reporter!)
• uninspected catfish sold in Texas...Fulton Seafood "produced" the wild caught catfish...figure that one out!
• Listeria in Walmart's bagged green beans and butternut squash -- sold under the "Marketside" name in TN and GA

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend.  Stay warm and dry.