Wai Wai Chinese, Loafers Bread hit with alerts

Consumer alerts were posted by the Allegheny County Health Department at Wai Wai Chinese Cuisine in Bloomfield and Loafers Bread Co. in McCandless. At Wai Wai Chinese on Liberty Avenue, the restaurant was cited for more than a dozen food safety violations, including

holding food at unsafe temperatures, failing to mark food with a discard date and a mouse infestation. “We are cleaning everything,” manager Kidman Wong said Monday. “It’s important. We know that.” At Loafers Bread Co. on Perry Highway, problems included holding food at unsafe temperatures, malfunctioning refrigeration equipment and lack of a certified food safety manager. “We’re having a refrigeration problem and are working to replace that,” general manager Bonnie Depew said Monday. Inspection reports for food facilities in the county are available online at www.achd.net.

WVU hires UPMC surgeon to lead research

UPMC transplant surgeon and entrepreneur Paulo Fontes has been hired by West Virginia University in Morgantown as the director of research and innovation. Dr. Fontes, who was also deputy director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, came to the University of Pittsburgh 37 years ago. He was hired by liver transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl. West Virginia University Medicine, which has been rapidly growing, has recruited a number of UPMC doctors and other employees in recent years, which UPMC has called a credit to its “reputation for excellence.”

With only half of recalls done, NHTSA says don’t drive old Fords

U.S. auto safety regulators again warned drivers that certain older pickups made by Ford Motor Co. should be parked until they replace dangerous air bags. The 2006 Ford Ranger and Mazda BSeries pickups contain defective air bag inflators made by Takata Corp. that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in January warned should not be driven because the parts pose “an immediate risk to safety.” NHTSA issued an additional warning Monday due to slow progress in replacing the defective parts. The defect has been linked to more than a dozen deaths.

Jay-Z lawyers: SEC probe has become a ‘celebrity hunt’

Lawyers for Jay-Z told a judge that the Securities and Exchange Commission has gone on a “celebrity hunt” by demanding the rapper submit to unlimited questioning beginning Friday about a company to which he sold his apparel business more than a decade ago.

The commission has sought to depose Jay-Z as part of its probe into possible securities fraud in the reporting of financial results by Iconix Brand Group, which purchased the rapper’s Rocawear apparel brand.