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While the idea that governments should order people to take the covid shot and implement so-called vaccine passports as a means of breaking down resistance to injecting these experimental drugs into the bodies of those who don't want them still holds sway in a lot of places, a few nations are backing away from this coercion. Just this week, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, and Israel announced changes in their covid strategy. Inspired by a Tory Party member's suggestion that he "in the name of God please go," UK's Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that "the measures we have taken...

The FDA approved a request from Pfizer, Inc. to extend the shelf-life of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for an additional three months – from six months to nine months — when the vaccine is stored at a temperature of -90 to -60 degrees Celsius. The extension is also applicable to batches that might have expired prior to this amendment. Read the revised fact sheet for vaccination providers.

U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- How long can ammunition be stored before it degrades? Much depends on the storage conditions. With reasonable care, ammunition has a shelf life of many decades, as verified by tests done with military centerfire cartridges.But how long does .22 rimfire last before it starts to degrade? There has not been much systematic long-term storage testing of .22 rimfire. It tends to be used as an expendable item. Some people have found an old box or two of ammunition and checked it for viability.This correspondent was able to obtain a large cache of 65+-year-old .22 rimfire ammunition with a...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has agreed to extend the shelf life on Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine from four-and-a-half months to six months.In a July 28 concurrence letter (pdf), the FDA said Johnson & Johnson had provided sufficient data to support the extension of the company’s vaccine to six months, including for already expired batches, provided they have been stored within the required temperature range of between 36–46 degrees Fahrenheit (2–8 degrees Celsius).Johnson & Johnson said in a statement that it is “pleased” with the FDA’s decision, adding that the pharmaceutical firm had provided the agency with...

<p>Trying to go to the store less during the coronavirus pandemic? 24/7 Tempo has assembled a list of foods that won't spoil quickly, making them good choices to stock should you want to quarantine.</p><p>1. Apples • Shelf life: 2 weeks to 6 months The apples we eat in spring and summer were often harvested in cooler weather. That's because they're a fruit that can stay fresh and crisp for as long as six months if they're stored in a cold, dark place (such as a root cellar in winter). If they're kept in a fruit bowl at room temperature, they'll generally remain at their best for at least two weeks, sometimes as long as a month.</p>

Shelf Life of an Allergy Auto-Injector May Increase to 2 Years Mylan CEO Heather Bresch has faced a barrage of criticism from lawmakers and the allergy community over the price escalation of EpiPen sets. But a secondary point she raised during her September 21 testimony in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was largely overlooked among those who rely on epinephrine auto-injectors: they may soon last longer. “We hope that within the next 12 months we’ll have approved a new formulation that will extend the shelf life,” Bresch said, while trying to defend the company’s research...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A rapid heating and cooling of milk significantly reduces the amount of harmful bacteria present, extending by several weeks the shelf life of one of the most common refrigerator staples in the world, according to a Purdue University study. Bruce Applegate, Purdue associate professor in the Department of Food Science, and collaborators from Purdue and the University of Tennessee published their findings in the journal SpringerPlus, where they show that increasing the temperature of milk by 10 degrees for less than a second eliminates more than 99 percent of the bacteria left behind after pasteurization. “It’s...

After 20 years in the same place, we have to move (by the end of June) as the landlady wants to move and has sold the place. In 20 years you tend to collect things, one of which is about a 200lb or more food storage drum of hard wheat berries. They were given to us from some good hearted Christians who were taken in by the Y2K scare - thus the wheat is 13 years old. It was sealed using the dry ice method, and it appears the drum is still sealed well, as it is quite concave. They...

fter granting permission, my Entire Food Shelf Life Summary Article was published in the Journal of Civil Defense, Volume 43, Issue Number 2, Year 2010. The Journal of Civil Defense has an extremely wide distribution and readership including all the Congressmen in the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Publisher's Mailing Address: The American Civil Defense Association, 11576 S. State Street, Suite 502, Draper, UT 84020 Publisher's Web Address: www.tacda.org.

When someone says “survival food preps” or “stockpiling survival food“, what do you think of? Do you think of tons of dried rice and beans stored in mylar bags? How about a basement full of #10 cans, does that come to mind? Or is it a combination of several things? When I was thinking of writing an article about survival food preps, the first thing that popped into my head was – MREs, canned goods and garden seeds. But where does perishable goods fit into that narrow picture? For the first week or so people are going to be eating...

So I'm at the local sports big box store and a clerk from the gun counter tells me that the government has chemist working on ammunition that will only have a 5 month shelf life. I tell him I never heard of this. He tells me to look it up. So I went home and I did. All I could find on the internet were rumors, nothing solid.I ask a fellow I know who works in the sporting section at Walmart about this. He told me he has had several people ask him if our ammo is the kind with...

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- For Aisha Abdullah, one of 25 Saudi women getting married in a mass wedding, this was the day she would shed what in Saudi Arabia is still considered a serious stigma -- being 40 and single. "No one can call me a spinster anymore," said the bride in her sequined cream dress. "Every time someone used to ask me why I was still unmarried, I would feel shame and embarrassment." The mass wedding in Jiddah on Aug. 6 was organized by the Charitable Project to Assist Youths to Get Married, one of many religious groups promoting...