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More than a dozen frozen supplemental shake products are being recalled over fears that they may be contaminated with a deadly strain of Listeria monocytogenes. The outbreak is so far believed to have hospitalized 37 people and led to the deaths of 11 individuals. Heres what you need to know about the frozen shake recall. Whats happened? On February 21, food distributor Lyons Magnus issued a voluntary recall of certain ReadyCare and Sysco Imperial Frozen Supplemental Shakes due to fears that they were contaminated with a strain of Listeria monocytogenes. The shakes were manufactured by a Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc. facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Lyons Magnus then distributed the shakes to institutional settings, mainly long-term care facilities (LTCF) and hospitals, in numerous states across the country. According to a notice posted by the U.S. Food And Drug Administration (FDA), the agency was notified in November about a Listeria outbreak at multiple LTCFs. The FDAs traceback investigation led to Lyons ReadyCare and Sysco Imperial Frozen Supplemental Shakes. Those shakes are now being recalled. What products are being recalled? Seventeen individual shake products are being recalled, according to a notice posted by Lyons Magnus. Those products include the following with select “Best Buy” dates, some of which stretch into next year: ReadyCare Frozen Vanilla Shake ReadyCare Frozen Chocolate Shake ReadyCare Frozen Strawberry Shake ReadyCare Frozen Vanilla Shake NSA ReadyCare Frozen Strawberry Shake NSA ReadyCare Frozen Chocolate Shake Plus ReadyCare Frozen Strawberry Shake Plus ReadyCare Frozen Vanilla Shake Plus ReadyCare Frozen Strawberry Banana Shake NSA ReadyCare Frozen Chocolate Shake NSA Imperial Frozen Vanilla Shake Imperial Frozen Chocolate Shake Imperial Frozen Strawberry Shake Imperial Frozen Vanilla Shake NSA Imperial Frozen Strawberry Shake NSA Imperial Frozen Strawberry Banana Shake NSA Imperial Frozen Chocolate Shake NSA The list of products with exact item numbers and Best Buy dates can be found here. The products come in 4 oz. Cartons. Images of the product packaging can be found here and here. Where were the recalled products sold? The recalled products were not distributed to retailers and sold to the public. Instead, they were distributed to institutions including hospitals and long-term care facilities throughout the United States. Has anyone been harmed from consuming the products? Unfortunately, yes. According to the FDA, the outbreak of this particular strain of Listeria monocytogenes goes back to 2018. Since then, 38 people have been infected20 of those cases happening in 2024 and 2025. Of the 38 known cases, 37 people have required hospitalization. Unfortunately, 11 people have died. The FDA says that cases have been reported in the following states: Alabama California Colorado Connecticut Florida Illinois Indiana Maryland Michigan Minnesota Missouri North Carolina Nevada New York Ohio Oklahoma Pennsylvania Tennessee Texas Washington West Virginia What is Listeria monocytogenes? Listeria monocytogenes is a bacteria that can cause Listeriosis in people who consume it. People usually get Listeriosis from eating Listeria-contaminated foods. While many healthy adults can contract Listeriosis and recover, the FDA says the disease is more dangerous for certain groups of people, including unborn or newborn babies, people with weakened immune systems, and those over the age of 65. Those last two cohorts are of particular concern with this outbreak as the recalled products were mainly distributed to hospitals and long-term care facilities. There are two main forms of Listeriosis: non-invasive and invasive. What are the symptoms of Listeria monocytogenes? According to the FDA, the symptoms of the more mild non-invasive listeriosis are: fever muscle aches nausea vomiting diarrhea Symptoms of the more problematic invasive listeriosis are: headache stiff neck confusion loss of balance convulsions The FDA says that invasive listeriosis is a potentially life-threatening event, especially in the most at-risk groups. What should I do if I have the recalled products? The good news is that most households should not have any of the recalled products as they were not sold to the public at retailers. However, institutions that may have the products in their possessionincluding long-term care facilities and hospitalsshould not sell or serve the products and should thoroughly clean and sanitize any surfaces or containers they have come into contact with.
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Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! Im Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages ofInc.andFast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you cansign up to get it yourselfevery Monday morning. It’s a tough time to be in the business of environmental sustainability. Earlier this month, seven of the worlds 10 largest countries missed a United Nations deadline for submitting updated emissions-cutting plans, according to Bloomberg. Starting late last year, financial institutions such as Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup, and others left the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a coalition of companies committed to reducing their carbon footprints. These moves and many others come as President Donald Trump and his appointees seek to eliminate federal government programs that tackle global warming. Even so, Jonquil Hackenberg, CEO of leading circular economy charity Ellen MacArthur Foundation, is navigating this new world with a mix of optimism and pragmatism. The circular economy is a system where materials are recycled, refurbished, reused, or composted and where farming is designed to increase biodiversity. In an exclusive interview with Modern CEO, Hackenberg underscored the foundations commitment to addressing global challenges such as climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. The circular route to waste reduction A recent example of the foundations work is the Big Food Redesign Challenge, an 18-month project aimed at helping the food sector design environmentally friendly products. Earlier this month, the foundation showcased 141 products by 57 organizations, including Nestlé and grocery chain Waitrose & Partners, which use circular economy and regenerative agriculture principles. In addition to such programs, Hackenberg also talked about the role circularity plays in non-environmental issues like supply-chain resiliency. We are looking at critical raw materials through the lens of material security, which plays very well into the new administration and beyond, she says. A sustainable supply-chain solution Studies suggest that recycling or reuse of materials can help offset disruptions in supply chains due to shortages or geopolitical factors. The European Unions Joint Research Center, for example, recently issued a report examining how boosting circularity, along with other approaches, could help reduce Europes dependency on China, Japan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, and Ukraine for materials used to make titanium metal products. Companies in the EU use titanium primarily in planes but also in cars, robots, and 3D printing. Hackenbergs background makes her well-equipped to make the practical case for the foundations mission. She previously served as CEO of Eunomia Research and Consulting, a social-environmental consultancy, and before that was global head of sustainability and climate response at PA Consulting. My experience is really in large-scale transformation, she says. The move to a circular economy is the largest-scale transformation were going to face. Indeed, despite early gains75 countries have circular economy roadmaps and 55% of businesses, including IKEA and Dell, have made commitments to circularitythe movement appears to be stalled. The most recent Circularity Gap Report found that just 7.2% of materials that entered the economy in 2023 were secondary, or non-virgin, down from 9.1% of materials in 2018. Circularity logic Driving further transformation may require highlighting the way circularity can support local economies, for example. If you are looking at governments that are perhaps more protectionist, who are asking, How do I help and protect our own economy? Its a ripe playing field for a circular economy to create new value opportunities and new jobs without global inputs, Hackenberg says. Hackenbergs broad framing of the benefits of circularity mirrors the way other nonprofits and many businesses are trying to reposition themselves in the Trump era. Fast Company recently reported on how cleantech startups have started emphasizing their role in national security. But the Ellen MacArthur Foundation isnt walking back its commitment to climate and biodiversity issues. We need courage and leadership to stay the course, she says. Politics will come and go, but facts back up that we are scraping at the barrels of planetary boundaries. Eliminating waste on our streets and in our oceans is a nonpartisan issue. How is your company handling topics under fire? Is your company reframing the way you talk about environmental sustainability, inclusion, or other topics that are under fire? Send your comments to me at stephaniemehta@mansueto.com. Id like to share some of your insights in an upcoming newsletter. Read more: virtuous circles Fast Companys best circular design of last year How HP is using a supply reset to advance the circular economy Meet Chairish, an 11-year-old, used-furniture marketplace and an Inc. Best in Business honoree
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With enrollment on the rise, the California Polytechnic State University in seaside San Luis Obispo has found itself staring down a familiar California problem: a severe housing shortage. “Cal Poly’s located in this beautiful town of San Luis Obispo. That is one of our competitive advantages, but it also means that everybody else wants to live here, too,” says Mike McCormick, vice president of facilities management and development at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo This desirability poses a problem for the university, which has seen enrollment grow in recent years, with trendlines suggesting an additional 4,000 students by the end of the decade. “It’s really hard for us to grow without providing housing,” McCormick says. “The city simply can’t absorb any of it. So that’s what’s driving our program.” That’s led the university to launch an ambitious, fast-paced, and possibly precedent-setting dormitory building project that will add 4,200 beds to the university’s campus housing inventory within just four years. The housingnine buildings primarily made up of six-bed, three-room suiteswill be built through modular construction inside a factory in Los Angeles. It will be the largest modular housing construction project in the country. [Image: courtesy Steinberg Hart Architects] The university partnered with FullStack Modular, a company specializing in industrialized construction that has previously built modular apartment buildings up to 15 stories tall, to produce the much-needed housing units quickly and affordably. Construction will commence later this year at FullStack Modular’s Los Angeles factory, and the first of nine new dormitory buildings is scheduled for occupancy in Fall 2026. FullStack Modular emerged in 2016 after a major 15-building modular construction project connected to the Barclay’s Center arena in Brooklyn faltered. Just one of the project’s buildings, a 32-story tower, was completed. It was, at the time, the tallest modular project in the world. Roger Krulak, an executive who worked on that project, created FullStack Modular and bought out the factory and the production process, and has chipped away at making a market for factory-built buildings ever since. [Image: courtesy Steinberg Hart Architects] As the largest modular construction project in the country, the 4,200-bed project now underway in California represents a high-profile test of the modular approach. It’s also a no-brainer example of how modular construction can be used to pump out a fairly cookie-cutter type of buildingthousands of dorm suitesfast and cheap. “We can predict timing and costs and repetitiveness and all of the economies of scale that you hope for in an industrialized process,” says Krulak. [Image: courtesy Steinberg Hart Architects] McCormick says the university was quick to latch onto the idea of factory-based construction for this project. That’s partly due to the lack of construction workers in the area to build a 4,200-bed project, and a lack of space to house workers who might relocate there for such a project. “Using traditional methods, we would import a workforce from Los Angeles, from the Valley, from San Francisco, and they would all be looking for housing while they’re here,” McCormick says. “That just exacerbates the problem that we’re trying to solve in the first place.” Building the project in a factory solves the workforce problem. It also brings the cost of construction down by systematizing the design into repeatable forms. “It doesn’t make sense to build this much housing and not take advantage of the repeatability,” McCormick says. FullStack Modular is currently building a prototype of the six-bed dorm suite that will make up about 80% of the project’s square footage. Krulak says it will be used to fine-tune the design before putting the factory into full production mode later this year. When underway, the process is expected to move twice as fast as conventional construction, and with much greater certainty over material and labor costs. Finding an affordable construction solution is not just a speculative real estate decision. At Cal Poly, and other universities across the country, housing is now more expensive than tuition. Modular housing could prove to be one way to increase supply and reduce costs. “The CSU is the largest university in the country. We have needs for housing all over the place,” McCormick says. “I’s a common problem, especially here in California, so we’re hoping that we create something that is absolutely transportable to other universities.”
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