THE BLACK ROLE IN ICE CREAM HISTORY

The Black Role In Ice Cream History

Today is National Ice Cream Day in America, as celebrated on the third Sunday of every July by order of President Ronald Reagan in 1984. Here are 10 things that you might now know about ice cream. Did you know that a black man started the modern ice cream manufacture in USA?

Chicago Tribune writes: “Who was the nation’s first great ice cream entrepreneur? We nominate Augustus Jackson, an African-American. In the late 1820s — when nearly 2 million other black Americans were still in bondage — Jackson was a free man who left his job as a chef at the White House and moved to Philadelphia to establish a successful catering business that supplied ice cream to restaurants.” http://www.bookerrising.net/2009/07/black-role-in-ice-cream-history.html

Standards Might Rise on Monitors for Diabetics

clipped from www.nytimes.com Standards Might Rise on Monitors for Diabetics By GARDINER HARRIS Federal officials may soon require improvements for the glucose monitors used by more than 11 million diabetics in the United States. The rise in the use of home glucose monitors, even by hospitals, is pushing the action by the Food and Drug Administration, which for decades has followed international standards that allow the devices to be wrong by as much as 20 percent. Such a wide error rate can leave patients vulnerable to severe problems, including seizures, unconsciousness and coma. In June, the agency pressed the international group that sets the standards to tighten them. If the group refuses to act, the agency “may instead recognize other (higher) performance standards” on its own, according to a June letter from Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, the agency commissioner.

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