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Yahoo
3 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Cucumbers Are Being Recalled in 15 States (So Far) After Multiple Reported Illnesses
This article may contain affiliate links that Yahoo and/or the publisher may receive a commission from if you buy a product or service through those links. Few things are more refreshing than a fresh cucumber. It's a staple in my fridge because it adds a satisfying crunch to salads and sandwiches, and it's delicious on its own as a simple snack. But before you grab one out of the fridge for your next quick lunch, you might want to double check where you got them from. On May 20, the CDC issued a recall for cucumbers grown by Florida-based company Bedner Growers, Inc. and distributed by Fresh Start Produce Sales, Inc. due to salmonella contamination. This isn't the first time this grower has had a recall, either. Last year a Bedner cucumber recall resulted in more than 550 illnesses. It's not just whole cucumbers you need to look out for, either. In addition to grocery stores such as Walmart, Albertsons, and Kroger, the cucumbers were shipped to restaurants and other facilities, so the recall includes ready-to-eat products made with the contaminated cucumbers. According to the CDC, the recall has led to 26 reported illnesses so far, nine of which led to hospitalizations, across 15 states: California, Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee. Here's exactly what you need to know about which products were affected and what retailers they were sold from. Authentic Greek Salad sold at Acme, Safeway, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market in CT, DE, DC, MD, NJ, NY, PA, and VA with best by dates between 5/23/2025 — 5/24/2025 Ready Meals Greek Salad sold at Shaw's and Star Market in MA, ME, NH, RI, and VT with best by dates between 5/20/2025 — 5/24/2025 Greek Salad sold at Shaw's and Star Market in MA, ME, NH, RI, and VT with best by dates between 5/20/2025 — 5/24/2025 Made-to-order sub sandwiches, wraps, and paninis sold at locations in MA and CT between 5/20/2025 — 5/21/2025 Fresh cucumbers, small and large vegetable trays Yummi Sushi products purchased between 4/29/2025 — 5/14/2025 Multiple products sold under the Snowfruit or Snowfox label at Kroger, Roundy's (Pick n Save and Metro Market), and Weis Market in IN, KY, IL, MI, TN, MS, AR, AL, WI, NJ, PA, WV, DE, MD, VA, and NY including vegetable trays, salads, and bowls. Find a complete list of all the products listed here. 5-pound mesh bags of whole cucumbers sold at Restaurant Depot locations in NJ, GA, FL, IL, and OH Marinated Cucumber Salad (6-ounce, 36-ounce, and 5-pound containers) sold at Food Lion Stores in VA and NC; Harris Teeter in VA; Kroger in VA, WV, OH, and KY; Libbie Market in VA; and Ukrop's Market Hall in VA with a sell by date between 5/11/2025 — 5/26/2025 Marketside Fresh Cut Cucumber Slices sold in TX with dates up to 5/24/2025 Salmonella bacteria causes an infection called salmonellosis, one of the leading causes of foodborne illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States. Salmonella infections are also more popular in the summer when there's warmer weather; foods left out unrefrigerated for long periods of time can cause the bacteria to grow. Common symptoms of salmonella infection include diarrhea, stomach cramps, dehydration, vomiting, and fever higher than 102°F, which typically start between six hours and six days after eating the contaminated food. If you are experiencing any of these symptoms after eating cucumbers, seek medical care. While most people will recover in four to seven days, salmonella poisoning can cause serious infections in children under 5, older individuals aged 65 and older, as well as those with weakened immune systems and underlying conditions. If you have recently purchased any of the products above and believe your cucumbers are contaminated, do not eat them. Throw them away or return them to the retailer you bought them from for a full refund. You should also clean and disinfect any surfaces that came in contact with the cucumbers with hot soapy water. If dining out, ask your server if the cucumbers used in any dish were sourced from Bedner Growers or Fresh Start Produce Sales, Inc. The One Cookware Brand That Gordon Ramsay Can't Stop Talking About Do Water Filters Really Work — And Which Ones Are the Best? Ball Just Dropped the Most Beautiful Mason Jars for Its 140th Anniversary ("So Iconic!") Sign up for The Kitchn's Daily newsletter to receive our best recipes, posts, and shopping tips in your inbox.
Miami Herald
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Enormous 19-foot, 250-pound creature is left at California reptile zoo. See it
A creature was dropped off at a California reptile zoo that was so massive, one handler said it was one of the biggest they've ever seen — and might even be the biggest one in the world. 'This is Cucumber. She is our Burmese python here at the Reptile Zoo,' Laura Brewer, operations manager at the zoo, says while sitting right next to the python in a video posted to the zoo's Facebook page May 17. 'She was a donation. We've had her for about four months. She is enormous.' The video shows Brewer sitting between the python and a wall of the snake's enclosure as she compares the size of their bodies. The 19-foot-long, 250-pound snake is so big she wolfs down 10-pound rabbits, Brewer said in the video. 'She may be the largest one,' Brewer says. 'I can't even explain how girthy she is. It's incredible.' Brewer then shows the size of her thigh to the python's body, saying the snake is twice the size. Brewer goes on to explain that Burmese pythons are the third largest snake behind reticulated pythons, which are the longest, and anacondas, which are the heaviest. 'These guys are so cool to be able to interact with because they're actually very sweet,' she said. 'So even though she's such a huge Burmese python, she's been interacted with on and off for the last … I mean her whole life, 25 years.' The zoo did not respond to McClatchy News' request for information about where the python was kept before she was dropped off at the zoo. Brewer said the snake's previous owners mentioned that she loves to relax in water in the summertime. 'With a little bit of socialization, having us come through and be with her, she's tamed down. She's so sweet,' Brewer said. 'We have to be very aware of her, obviously, but it's been cool to be able to sort of formulate that relationship.' Several people in the comments joked about the snake's size — and how easy they thought it looked for her to eat a human. 'Better watch her,' someone said. 'She is big enough to eat you.' Others commented saying they couldn't imagine where the snake had been kept before she was donated to the zoo. 'Dropped off? By who, and why?' someone asked. Fountain Valley is about a 40-mile drive southeast from Los Angeles.
BBC News
06-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Freddie Fox joins the Whoniverse in Doctor Who season 2
He's appeared in fantasy epics on TV and Shakespearean tragedies on stage, but now Freddie Fox will be jumping aboard the TARDIS with the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) for an adventure in time and space in the upcoming second season of Doctor Who, which will air this year. Since his on-screen debut in 2009, Freddie has appeared in many TV hits including The Gentlemen, The Crown, The Great, Slow Horses, and most recently as Ser Gwayne Hightower in House of the Dragon. In 2015, Freddie appeared as Freddie Baxter in Russell T Davies' Channel 4 dramas Cucumber and Banana. In addition to his TV roles, Freddie has also made a big impact on stage, earning a Laurence Oliver nomination for his role as Tristan Tzara in the revival of Travesties at the Apollo Theatre. Freddie is now heading to the Whoniverse, to play a fearsome villain from another planet in an upcoming episode. Russell T Davies, Showrunner says: 'It's been 10 years since I worked with Freddie on Cucumber, and this is a great way to celebrate the anniversary. He's the most spectacular actor, and he comes to Doctor Who with fury, venom, cunning and a beautiful set of horns. Doctor beware!' Freddie Fox, says: 'I had the most amazing time making this show and feel honoured to have been asked to be a part of Russell's crazy, bonkers, beautiful vision. Added to which, sharing space with the iconic Doctor that is Ncuti Gatwa was special beyond imagining. If audiences enjoy watching it half as much as I did making it, televisions are on course to explode right across the world!" Doctor Who is produced by Bad Wolf with BBC Studios for the BBC and Disney Branded Television and will air on 12 April exclusively on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, and on Disney+ outside of the UK (where available). JC/JA2/NH
New York Times
18-02-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
She Gathered Evidence of War Crimes. Then She Became a Victim of One.
Three years after Vladimir Putin launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war is still raging. Whether Ukraine will prevail remains, for the moment, unknowable. In the bracing introductory pages of her remarkable book, 'Looking at Women Looking at War,' the Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina acknowledges the possibility of her homeland's defeat, quoting a passage from a letter she sent to a prominent Ukrainian human rights activist: 'If we lose, I want to at least tell the story of our pursuit of justice.' Amelina's book began as a diary. As she embarked on a mission to gather evidence of Russian war crimes, it evolved into a kind of detective story. It may also be considered a battle cry — one cut short when she became a casualty of the war herself, her book left to be assembled by colleagues and friends. On Feb. 24, 2022, Amelina and her 10-year-old son are in Egypt, racing to catch an early morning flight home after a weeklong vacation. As the taxi hurtles through the desert, she checks the news on her phone. The connection is poor. A single, cursory headline reaches her: 'Explosions in Kyiv.' The thundering in Ukraine's capital continues while she remains stuck at the airport; all flights to Kyiv are canceled. Ever resourceful, Amelina manages to book a plane to Prague and enters Poland by train, leaving her son with his father in Krakow. Alone, she crosses the border into Ukraine and makes her way to Lviv, transforming a wardrobe in her top-floor apartment into a tiny bomb shelter. All week, Ukrainians flee to Poland, seeking safety. Amelina likens the spectacle to a flock of birds filling the sky to a distant horizon. She resolves to stay put. 'The quest for justice,' she writes, 'has turned me from a novelist and mother into a war crimes researcher.' A thread of suspense twists through the chapters that follow. A bomb could explode at any moment. She volunteers for an organization called Truth Hounds, which provides a crash course on international humanitarian law and guidelines one must follow when documenting war crimes. A green VW van christened 'Cucumber' transports Amelina and her team to various destinations, including Balakliya, where Russians have reportedly tortured civilians, and Kapytolivka, where the Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Vakulenko was presumably murdered. There Amelina digs up his diary, buried under a cherry tree in a backyard garden. She quotes excerpts from it, including this devastating sentence: 'During the first days of occupation I gave up a little, then due to my half-starved state — totally.' Diary entries are scattered throughout her narrative, as are snippets of oral history and profiles of Ukrainian women who have devoted themselves, as she has, to the resistance. A cutthroat lawyer named Evhenia receives particularly memorable descriptions: 'She will learn how to stop tanks with a Kalashnikov,' Amelina tells us. The shadow of past atrocities falls over these pages. Amelina bears the memories of family who survived the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, also known as the Holodomor, like battle scars. She's got a gimlet eye for the disquieting, sometimes surreal detail: a dead frog floating in a hotel swimming pool, a string of origami angels swinging in the wind, two men playing Ping-Pong beside a bombed McDonald's in Kharkiv. When a bomb detonates somewhere in the city, they don't even flinch. The missile that killed Amelina exploded in a pizza parlor 200 kilometers south of Kharkiv, on June 27, 2023. She died of her injuries several days later, at the age of 37. In an afterword, the book's editors estimate that her work on it was 'nearly 60 percent' complete; 'Looking at Women Looking at War' begins to fracture roughly two-thirds through. The editors made the admirably audacious choice to incorporate into the narrative Amelina's outlines and notes, including stream-of-consciousness outpourings, abbreviations and interruptions, as if language itself has been shattered by all the shelling: Putin has called the invasion a 'special military operation.' Amelina puts it differently: 'It is time for everyone to call the war a war.' While her book is at times fragmentary and episodic, marked by abrupt discontinuities, the cumulative effect is powerful, eloquently testifying to the horrific consequences of this conflict.
