If high-end, exotic coffee blends are your thing, then consider this your warning. A devastating fungus is wreaking havoc on the crops, meaning your cup of joe could cost a lot more; if you are lucky enough to find it in the first place. [More]
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High-End Coffee Drinkers Could Be Paying More For Their Java Thanks To Devastating Fungus
By 5.19.14
Safeco Waits 57 Days To Inspect House Under Fungus Attack, Only Pays 5% Of Repair Costs
By 11.1.12
When your house is being devoured by a rare fungus, the last thing you want is for the insurance company to drag its feet in checking the problem out. Actually, that’s second-to-last. The last thing you want is for the insurance company to pay you pennies on the dollar for the repairs. [More]
Fungus Threatens To Make The Bananas You Eat Extinct
By 1.5.11
Do you like to eat bananas? Better get your fill in. A horrible fungus called “Tropical Race Four” is threatening to kill off the one variety that everyone eats, the Cavendish. [More]
IHOP Serves You Nasty-Tasting Blueberry Pancakes
By 5.20.08
Reader Loren decided to get her midnight breakfast on with some pancakes at IHOP, but when she got home something tasted a bit off. She looked down and to her disgust, discovered what she thought to be a large area of mold engulfing the blueberries on the pancakes. Her letter and the not-safe-for-breakfast pictures, inside…
CDC: MoistureLoc, Yep, It Had Fungus
By 8.23.06
An official report concluded Renu MositureLoc was the only eye care solution contributing to outbreaks of Fusarium infection earlier this year. They still had no clue why, though.
Baush Apologizes With Free Eye-Solution
By 5.26.06
Users of Baush & Lomb eyecare products received a letter today.
Lady Tells How Moistureloc Made Her Blind. Skeet. Skeet.
By 5.18.06
Here’s an eyewitness account of a user of the infamous Bausch & Lomb Renu Moisture Loc contact lens solution. She went blind in one eye. From the NYT:
Baush & Lomb Yanks MoistureLoc From Shelves After Fungal Outbreaks
By 5.15.06
Baush & Lomb, scraping the craggy fungal barnacle crust from its eyes, announced today it will permanently pull from the worldwide markets its MoistureLoc contact lens solution linked to a rare eye fungus. Shares rose nearly 9%.
