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Yahoo
6 hours ago
- Health
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Over 100,000 Ice Cream Bars Recalled For Listeria Risk—Here's What You Need To Know
The bars were sold in 23 states. If you've been trying to beat the summer heat with sweet treats, you may want to check the package. Rich's Ice Cream is recalling some of its frozen novelties due to potential listeria contamination. The Food and Drug Administration Authority (FDA) announced that the Florida-based company is working with them to recall the products, which were distributed across the country. The ice cream treats affected by the recall include some of Rich's most popular novelties, including their Savagely Sour Bars, Chocolate Crunch Cake Bars, Strawberry Shortcake Bars, Rich Bars, Orange Cream Bars, Cool Watermelon Bars, Fudge Frenzy Bars, and more. According to the FDA, there are potentially 110,292 cases affected. The bars were sold in 23 states, including those across the South: Alabama Georgia Florida Texas Virginia Tennessee South Carolina Oklahoma Louisiana For a full list of states where the potentially contaminated products were distributed, head to the FDA's website. To find out if the ice cream in your freezer is part of the recall, look on the package for lot numbers 24351 through lot 25156. As USA Today notes, the recall was initiated with the FDA on June 27, and it is classified as Class II recall. That is "a situation in which use of, or exposure to, a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote," the FDA website states. Listeria contamination is potentially serious. It is exceptionally dangerous for pregnant women, newborns, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems, per the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If you are still hankering for something sweet, here's how to make homemade ice the original article on Southern Living Solve the daily Crossword
The National
10 hours ago
- Politics
- The National
‘Life cut short': American man's killing in West Bank highlights scourge of Israeli settler violence
In a weathered strip mall in Tampa, wedged between a smoke shop and a small brewery, an ice cream parlour dishes out scoops of brightly coloured sherbet, experimental baklava and pistachio-filled Dubai chocolate concoctions – cold treats fitting for the dense humidity of Florida summers. On most days, patrons could find the manager and part-owner of Ice Screamin', 20-year-old Sayfollah Musallet – Sayf, to those who knew him – behind the counter. 'He wanted to spread sweetness through all he did. That's literally what he did for a living,' his cousin, Fatmah Muhammad, told The National. 'He just excelled in everything he did. He wanted to do it perfectly.' Just before his 21st birthday, his family says, he was beaten to death by Israeli settlers while visiting relatives for the summer at their home in the occupied West Bank. His close friend, Mohammad Rizq Al Shalabi, was reportedly shot dead, and 10 others were injured in the same attack. Mr Musallet, a US citizen born raised in Florida, is now among more than 900 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank since Israel's war on Gaza began after the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, according to UN figures. He's the ninth American killed in the West Bank since 2022. His death has sparked an international outcry, including from US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who described the killing as a terrorist act. The Tampa Bay area, where Mr Musallet lived with his parents and brother, is home to one of the largest Arab-American populations in Florida, which in turn is the US state with the fifth-highest number of Arab-Americans. 'Outnumbered' Daylight still shone when Mr Musallet and a group of about eight friends left Friday congregational prayers on June 11, marking the start of the weekend. That Friday should have been no different than any other. Mr Musallet and friends sauntered down the hill from the mosque in their village of Al Mazraa Al Sharkiya, north-east of Ramallah, talking about their families, their latest investment ideas, who among them might get married next. They were headed towards what they call 'the Batin', a shallow valley surrounding its namesake hill, Jabal Batin, and marked by terraced groves of sturdy olive and fig trees. The area is dotted with Israeli settlements: Maale Levona, one of the largest, sits on top of Jabal Batin. Several of the young men made their way to a local coffee shop in the Batin for a cup of freshly juiced mint lemonade, their handy saj – a dome-shaped metal cooking pot – in tow, ready for use at a small barbecue, or sajiyyeh, held among themselves on land passed down through generations. 'Before you know it, all hell breaks loose,' one witness, who was among the men attacked that day, told The National. 'Settlers come just running straight at us and they outnumbered us by a lot.' He said as many as 100 settlers, many holding rocks, encircled his group. Such a sight is familiar on social media, which is rife with footage of similar violence. The group feared the settlers were concealing firearms. 'We looked up on top of us, it's raining rocks,' said the witness, who described hearing bullets fly past their ears. 'It was just hell. The best way to explain it was hell.' The witness, a friend of Mr Musallet's who asked not to be identified for fear of Israeli reprisal, said the group ran. Mr Al Shalabi was the fastest. He looked back now and then to warn that the settlers were in pursuit, but after a while, the group lost sight of him. 'We thought he lasted a few hours like us, but no,' the witness said. 'I remember hearing one gunshot and I'm pretty sure that was whenever he was killed.' The group, now a couple of men down, continued to run across the mountain as settlers pelted them with rocks, the witness said. One of the young men was hit in the legs and groin. After a long stretch of running, the witness said he himself collapsed from exhaustion. Now sheltered underneath an olive tree, still in afternoon daylight, he faced Mr Musallet for what would be the last time. The witness said he encouraged Mr Musallet and the others to continue towards their village. 'I keep regretting saying that, because maybe, maybe my friend would have been saved if he stayed with me.' The last words he would hear from Mr Musallet were in Arabic: 'Strengthen your heart.' 'Till now, I can't figure out if that was to me or to himself, or for me to send that message to his father or for his mother,' he said. 'I honestly do not know, because he wasn't looking at me when he was saying that.' The witness later learnt one of the friends remained with Mr Musallet, who by then had already been severely beaten, and tried to carry him to safety. But soon unable to physically support him any longer, that friend made the decision to leave and seek help for Mr Musallet, the witness said. They were able to call an ambulance but, according to Mr Musallet's family, settlers blocked it from reaching him. Eventually, Mr Musallet's younger brother led a charge from the village to reach him on foot. 'Sayf was able to take his last breath in front of his brother, and then he passed away right in front of his younger brother. Imagine that,' the witness said. The Israeli military told The National that "a joint investigation was opened by the Israel Police and the Military Police Criminal Investigation Division", but did not respond specifically to allegations by the family and witnesses. Village life disrupted The Friday afternoon post-prayer rendezvous at the Batin is a regular ritual during the young men's summers in Al Mazraa Al Sharkiya. That's village life epitomised, says Reem Qarout, a cousin of Mr Musallet's. A Palestinian-American from California, she said she has spent the past few summers with family in the West Bank. She describes it in one word: warmth. 'It's just a constant sense that everyone is there for each other,' she said. 'You need someone, and it takes one phone call and they will be there.' In the summertime, she said, the village is flooded with visitors from the US, like herself and the Musallets. 'We just go to people's houses, and you'll find everyone sitting in beautiful backyards, courtyards, all drinking tea, laughing. It's just this beautiful energy.' But the last few days of this summer's trip, she said from her home in southern California, were unlike anything she had experienced there before. 'Everyone was absolutely heart-broken, shattered, no one had any energy,' she said. 'I hope people don't think, 'Oh, they're used to this, this happens on the daily for them'. With every single person this happens to – every single young man, young lady, every single elder – it is just as devastating.' Mr Musallet is remembered as a 'pure, kind-hearted, religious' young man who never missed a prayer and cared deeply for the shabab he'd spend most of his time with on those summer visits back at his family home. 'Sayfollah was the type that, you know, whenever he came into the room, that's it. Your day will change for the good,' his friend, the eyewitness, said. 'He was a good son, a good brother, a good friend. He was the best of the best for everything.' This summer, Mr Musallet had a mission he'd made clear to his parents: he'd hoped to come back with a fiancee. 'He always bugged his dad, and his dad kept on telling him, 'Inshallah, just give it some time.' And that time was finally this summer,' the same friend said. 'I'm not even going to say every day – every 10 minutes I would get a call, or he would just pull up to my house and we would have a conversation.' There has been a surge in settler violence in the West Bank since October 2023. Israeli settlements there are illegal under international law, which recognises the Palestinian Authority's full jurisdiction over the territories. But Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967, with Palestinian areas thinning out steadily since. 'We go to Haifa, we go to Yaffa, we go to Jerusalem,' Ms Qarout said. 'And you do find settlers there, but they're not running up to you to kill you. It's just in the West Bank, they're absolutely vicious.' For some, like Ms Qarout, being a Palestinian-American brings mixed feelings. 'It's very unfortunate that, because of a little blue booklet, we have more privilege,' she said, referring to her US passport. 'Sayfollah's getting more attention because he's American, but there are so many Palestinians who have been killed who we'll never know about.' Home in the Sunshine State Born in Port Charlotte, Florida, Mr Musallet had come to know the peninsula's Gulf coast intimately. It's where a significant portion of the estimated 200,000 Arab-Americans who live in Florida have settled over decades, many of whom still have active roots in the West Bank. A cluster of families in Tampa call the West Bank home, whether their kin is in Sinjil, Turmus Aya, or Ramallah. In fact, that cluster of villages just north-west of Ramallah is known for its Palestinian-American population. A knack for sweets runs in the family. Ms Muhammad, who sells Palestinian sweets at her own business, Knafeh Queens, made famous by Instagram, had a spot carved out for her at her cousin's ice cream shop. 'A lot of shops sell knafeh. But the way he presented it … I would joke, 'Oh, my God, you're presenting it better than how I would. You can't do better than me!'' Since his death, she's used her following to raise awareness of violence in the occupied West Bank and demand justice for Mr Musallet. 'It's just heart-breaking to know that someone who went just to vacation and see his family and to spend time on his land couldn't even do that,' Ms Muhammad said. 'His life was cut short. He had such big dreams.' Beyond the walls of Ice Screamin', the Palestinian population in Tampa exists at odds with state and local politics. Shortly after the Hamas attack on southern Israel and the start of Israel's war in Gaza, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis banned Palestinian student groups from two state college campuses and said the US should not accept any Palestinian refugees. The same month, he chartered a private plane to bring back 270 Americans from Israel. Florida Senator Rick Scott recently signed legislation to 'protect Israel in the UN', his website says. It would cut off 'US funding to any UN agency that expels, suspends, downgrades, or otherwise restricts the participation of Israel.' And last month, Israeli drone maker Xtend opened an assembly plant in Tampa, where it intends to finalise production of 3,000 strike and surveillance quadcopter systems a month. 'At the [factory] opening, the mayor of Tampa was there, and just had this big smile,' said Lama Alhasan, a Palestinian-American community organiser with the Tampa Bay Area Dream Defenders, a branch of a wider activist group. 'We know that these are the things that attack Palestinians. And it's right here in our backyard.' That backyard is a small world. Ms Alhasan said she realised after the fact that she had encountered members of the Musallet family at various community events. 'I want to highlight the refusal to even acknowledge Sayfollah by the local officials here, and it obviously has to do with him being Palestinian,' she said. 'What happened to Sayfollah Musallet is not just something that happened 3,000 miles away.' Mohamad Khatib had the same idea. He's a member of the branch of the Democratic Party in Pasco County, next to Tampa, who submitted a motion to the party's executive committee to recognise Sayfollah Musallet and condemn violence in the West Bank. He told The National he thought he could 'capitalise on the party's motivation' to bring back an Arab-American voting bloc that had fractured under the Biden administration over its almost unfettered support for Israel. The motion failed. 'The Democrats are not used to taking bold positions,' Mr Khatib said. 'They pushed back, saying that international policies should be held not by the local committee, but the party in general.' 'Not the same' From the Tampa Bay Area and beyond, the Musallet family has called for an independent, US-led investigation into the attack and the perpetrators. The US Department of State has the task of responding to incidents affecting Americans abroad. All complaints – from lost or stolen passports to violent crime or natural disasters – affecting US citizens are directed to the State Department. Four days after Mr Musallet's killing, Mr Huckabee, the US ambassador, said the attack was a 'terrorist act' and called for an independent investigation. The announcement came as a surprise to many, given Mr Huckabee's strident support for Israel that includes referring to the West Bank by its Biblical name, Judea and Samaria. The Israeli embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment from The National. The State Department acknowledged the death of an American citizen in the West Bank the day after the attack. Five days later, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said his department was 'gathering more information'. The standard response, according to James Zogby, founding president of the Washington-based Arab American Institute and a contributor to The National, goes further. 'Number one is a formal meeting with the family,' he told The National. 'Number two is a very strong statement of condemnation and a demand for an inquiry into what happened, and I would not at this point leave it to the Israelis to investigate, as was the case with Shireen [Abu Akleh]', the Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist who was shot dead by an Israeli soldier while working in the West Bank in 2022. Former president Joe Biden's administration had imposed economic sanctions against some settlers and groups to try to dissuade them from committing violence against Palestinians. The Trump administration scrapped these. 'There's no administration that's done any better,' Mr Zogby said. 'The victim is Palestinian, the perpetrator is Israeli, the US government is enabling them to do it and Palestinian lives are just not viewed as the same.' This is a grievance echoed across the Palestinian community, American or not. The death of Mr Al Shalabi, who was not American, is receiving even less attention. Mr Musallet's friend who witnessed the attack said when the settlers approached, he had flashed them his US passport, which he said he always carries in the West Bank. 'I speak in English, I say I'm American,' he said. 'They do not care.' That's no discouragement for Mr Musallet's surviving relatives. 'People say, why go [to the West Bank] if it's like that?' Ms Muhammad recounts. 'We will not give up, even if every single one of us has to die for our country and for our people." As for her cousin: 'All we want is justice for him. We will fight and speak out till the end.'
Yahoo
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Video: Golden Retriever Plays Fetch With Mom but the Rules Have Changed a Little
Golden Retriever dogs absolutely love to play fetch, and the game usually involves a ball or a stick. However, this particular video showcased an adorable Golden Retriever named Comet Olsen changing the rules of fetch a little bit by playing with an ice cream tub instead of a ball or a stick. The paw parent of the canine took to Instagram to post the cute video showing the cheeky side of the furry baby. Moreover, the clip has been positively received by netizens as they loved Comet's expressions. Golden Retriever plays fetch with an ice cream tub instead of a ball in cute video An adorable video on Instagram shows a Golden Retriever, Comet, playing fetch but with a tub of ice cream, and it has captured the hearts of many people on the internet. The video is as cute as it gets. In the caption of the post, the human parent revealed the strategy behind the dog playing fetch. They humorously wrote, 'Finders keepers…' The Instagram video started by giving a closer look at the Golden Retriever, who stood still while holding the tub of ice cream in her mouth. The traces of innocence mixed with mischief could clearly be seen in the furry baby's eyes. Soon, viewers could hear the pet parent asking Comet whether they could have the ice cream tub back. But it was a big no-no from the Golden Retriever, who then decided to cheekily run away with the entire tub. Netizens have been flooding the comment section with their thoughts on the adorable dog. One person wrote what the Golden Retriever might be thinking, adding, 'Just a wittle treat, please.' Another Instagram user perfectly pointed out, 'Dog be thinking nope this is justs for me!!!.' A third person wrote, 'That's clearly a pup pint.' The post Video: Golden Retriever Plays Fetch With Mom but the Rules Have Changed a Little appeared first on DogTime. Solve the daily Crossword
CTV News
2 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
Teen opens her own ice cream shop in the Laurentians
Montreal Watch After writing a business plan for her Grade 11 high school project, Simonne Groleau, 17, is the owner of an ice cream shop in Prevost, Que.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Health
- Yahoo
Ice Cream Bars and Frozen Treats Recalled in 23 States Due to Listeria
Skip the ice cream truck for now. Depending on where you live, an innocent ice cream truck could hide a potential threat. Rich's Ice Cream Co., based in West Palm Beach, Florida, recalled 110,292 cases of ice cream bars on June 27. The frozen treats may be contaminated with listeria, a potentially lethal foodborne pathogen. Rich's sells its products to schools and ice cream trucks across the country, so this recall is particularly dangerous for school-age kids. When Rich's first recalled the contaminated ice cream bars, the company sent a note to its distributors but not to the public, according to a Food Safety News report. Nearly three weeks later, on July 17, the United States Food & Drug Administration (FDA) classified the recall as Class II, or 'a situation in which use of, or exposure to, a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote,' per the FDA's website. This classification brought the recall to light and caused a wave of media coverage. Here's what you need to know to keep your family safe. What You Need To Know Take care when ordering treats from an ice cream truck this summer. Listeria bacteria can survive refrigeration and even freezing, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. The following frozen products may contain traces of listeria: Chocolate Crunch Cake Bar Cool Watermelon Bar Cotton Candy Twirl Bar Crumbled Cookie Bar Fudge Frenzy Bar Orange Cream Bar Rich Bar Savagely Sour BlueRaspberry Bar Savagely Sour Cherry Bar Strawberry Shortcake Bar The ice cream bars were all individually packaged in plastic wrappers. There's not much parents can do right now, except err on the side of caution when purchasing from ice cream trucks. The distributors of Rich's ice cream bars sold the frozen treats to schools and ice cream truck vendors in the following states: Alabama Arizona California Florida Georgia Illinois Iowa Louisiana Massachusetts Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Jersey New York Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia Wisconsin If you think you or your child has eaten one of the contaminated ice cream treats, monitor for symptoms. Listeria can cause fever and flu-like symptoms, such as muscle aches and fatigue, according to the CDC. Other common symptoms are headache, stiff neck, confusion, and loss of balance. If you experience any of the above, contact your healthcare provider to confirm a diagnosis. Read the original article on SIMPLYRECIPES Solve the daily Crossword
