Another weekly excursion to the grocery store, and I am approaching this trip as an adventure. The duration of my trips is increasing as I explore the origins of my food purchases. 

Another recall just came across the news feed. A few minutes before that, there was a news flash about a foodborne outbreak. It got me to thinking: What is the correlation, if any, between the foodborne outbreaks and recalls?

The future is an unpredictable place. As such, we generally prefer to leave predictions to others. We would be reluctant to break our no-prediction rule even in the most stable times, when little in the way of change is expected.

Testing an X-ray system is typically based on selecting small bones and cutting small pieces of these bones. These pieces are subsequently placed into a chicken fillet or a deboned leg. The product is subsequently scanned by the X-ray system, and its ability to detect the bone in question is assessed.