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...Since last spring, the agency has been reviewing its protocols for spices, to determine whether the risk of contamination or exposure to elements such as lead from dried products imported from overseas warrants more scrutiny. "We have extensive surveying of imported foods at major ports," says Allen. "Obviously we can't look at everything, but we do target inspection based on where the food comes from and what the history of the product is, and we do ban certain products...
...crisp day in Valencia, Spain, early last month, a small man in a cardinal-red jumpsuit walked a few steps from a million-dollar motor home and ducked into a lavish hospitality tent, both in the same bright scarlet. No one was allowed anywhere near him, but throngs of Spaniards hanging over the railing of Valencia's Ricardo Tormo racetrack went crazy. "Look up here, Fernando! Te quiero, Fernando...
...question is, will they keep coming? Last year, advertisers, fans, teams and media spent $4.6 billion on F1's festival of fossil fuel. Six hundred million people around the world watched some part of the season on television. That's why companies such as Korean electronics conglomerate LG Group are prepared to lay out "several hundred million dollars" to have their logo plastered all over F1, says Andrew Barrett, the company's VP of global sponsorship, who recently inked such a deal. "We were looking for as broad a global reach as we could get with one sport, and nothing...
...what the big numbers and the gaudy pageantry hide is how close the sport came to a total crack-up last year, and just how rickety it remains. At times over the past few years, Formula One has looked as ungovernable as California: big teams quit, and more threatened to do so; the financial industry canceled its lifeblood sponsorship almost en masse; track attendance is down; and scandals have tarnished everyone from a world champ to the former head of motor sport itself. Bernie Ecclestone, the septuagenarian who is usually described as F1's principal stakeholder (a description that doesn...
More Dash Than Cash Last summer, it looked like the sport might cease to exist altogether. Angry at Formula One's decision to impose a team-spending cap, Ferrari, the oldest team on the grid, threatened to lead the biggest marques in a rival series. The teams pulled back at the last minute, but demanded that Max Mosley, the president of the governing Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), stand down after 17 years. Mosley...