The U.S. and Global Security Review - Blog by Michael Novakhov

LIST-eria - Blue Bell CDC: 10 listeria illnesses now linked to Blue Bell foods   by By JUAN A. LOZANO Tuesday April 21 st , 2015  at  8:02 PM AP Top Headlines At 7 P.M. EDT 1 Share HOUSTON (AP) -- Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries has recalled all of its products after two samples of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream tested positive for listeria, a potentially deadly bacteria.... Blue Bell Recalls All Products AP Apr 21, 6:45 PM EDT Blue Bell says it's still trying to pinpoint listeria cause By  JUAN A. LOZANO  Associated Press AP Photo/Orlin Wagner Buy AP Photo Reprints HOUSTON (AP) -- A massive recall has brought more attention and put more pressure on a century-old Texas ice cream company that has been searching to discover how its products became linked to a deadly string of listeria cases. Blue Bell Creameries s...

A review found that microscopic analysis of hair is virtually worthless as a method of identifying someone. Photograph: Steven Puetzer/Getty Images Thirty years in jail for a single hair: the FBI's 'mass disaster' of false conviction   by Ed Pilkington in New York Tuesday April 21 st , 2015  at  8:04 PM Network Front | The Guardian 1 Share A ‘dirty bomb’ of pseudo-science wrapped up nearly 268 cases – perhaps hundreds more. Now begins the  ‘herculean  effort to right the wrongs’ George Perrot has spent almost 30 years in prison thanks to a single hair. It was discovered by an FBI agent on the bedsheet of a 78-year-old woman who had been raped by a burglar in her home in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1985. Perrot, then 17, was put on trial, despite the absence of physical evidence tying him to the crime scene. There was no semen. There was no blood. And so there was no way to conduct a conclusive DNA test. Continue read...