Online Business Idea DirectoryYou are here » Online Business Idea » Links Directory » Health » Public Health and Safety (0)
Public Health and Safety RSS FeedsLeading Leprologist Delivers Hanks Lecture - Leading Leprologist delivers Hanks lecture...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Reported Increase in Older Adult Fall Deaths Due to Improved Coding - Reported Increase in Older Adult Fall Deaths Due to Improved Coding... Gaps in Sexual Health Care for Male Teens - Gaps in Sexual Health Care for Male Teens... Pneumonia and Preterm Birth Complications Are the Leading Causes of Childhood Death - Pneumonia and Preterm Birth Complications Are the Leading Causes of Childhood Death... Bloomberg School Receives Grand Challenges Grant - Bloomberg School Receives Grand Challenges Grant... Teaching Excellence - Teaching Excellence Q3 2011-2012... A Better Method for Diagnosing Kidney Disease - A Better Method for Diagnosing Kidney Disease... Actor Sam Waterston Receives Goodermote Humanitarian Award - Actor Sam Waterston Receives Goodermote Humanitarian Award... Alcohol Regulation on the Internet Failing to Protect Youth - Alcohol Regulation on the Internet Failing to Protect Youth... Johns Hopkins Establishes New Center for AIDS Research - Johns Hopkins Establishes New Center for AIDS Research... 15 Million Babies Born Too Soon - 15 Million Babies Born Too Soon, Over 1 Million Die Each Year... Majority of States Fail to Address Youth Exposure to Alcohol Marketing - Majority of States Fail to Address Youth Exposure to Alcohol Marketing... Public Health: On the Inside - Inside look at the world and careers of public health... 1 in 3 Households Misreports Smoke Alarm Coverage - One in Three Households Misreports Smoke Alarm Coverage... FoodNet Shares Lessons From More Than a Decade of Data - (FoodSafetyNews.com) - Numbers are usually called trends after a year. After more than a decade, numbers can point up real problems or they just become more interesting.
That may be why FoodNet, the collaborative 10-state surveillance program, took a step back
from its annual "Vital Signs" report to fill an entire supplemental issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases to examine more than a decade's worth of data.
Like its last annual report, the supplement... 10 Infected with Campylobacter from Raw Milk in California - (FoodSafetyNews.com) - At least 10 people infected with Campylobacter in California reported drinking Organic Pastures raw milk prior to becoming ill, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said Thursday.
Raw milk, raw skim milk (non-fat), raw cream and raw butter produced by the Fresno County dairy have been recalled and are subject to a quarantine order imposed by California State Veterinarian Dr. Annette Whiteford.
Whiteford issued the quarantine orde... Hepatitis A Alert for Restaurant Diners in Indiana - (FoodSafetyNews.com) - People who ate at the Lone Star Restaurant in Evansville, IN from April 27 to May 3, 2012 may have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus, according to a news release Thursday from the Vanderburgh County Health Department.
County officials said they are working with the Indiana State Department of Health in investigating a case of hepatitis A in a food worker at the restaurant, which is located in the Eastland Plaza Shopping Center in Evansville.... Consumers Trust Food Biotechnology, Food Safety, Survey Finds - (FoodSafetyNews.com) - While criticism of genetically modified foods has received widespread media attention in the past few years, consumers remain generally supportive of food biotechnology, according to an industry-funded survey released Thursday.
The evaluation - conducted by the International Food Information Council (IFIC) - found that 38 percent of consumers have a somewhat or very favorable opinion towards plant biotechnology, up from 32 percent in 2010. A sma... Jonlly Fruits Inc. Issues Allergy Alert On Undeclared Allergens In Several Products - (US Food & Drug Administration) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 10, 2012 - Jonlly Fruits Inc., Bayamón, PR, is alerting consumers about their brands Jonlly Fruit and Natural Tropic: China (Orange), Acerola (Wild Cherry), Uva (Grape), Parcha (Passion Fruit), Fruta (Fruit Punch), Limón (Lemon), Toronja (Grapefruit), Guava-Piña (Guava-Pineapple), Guanábana (Soursop), China Light (Orange Light), Mandarin (Mandarina), and China-Zanahoria (Orange-Carrot) because it may contain undeclared... Jonlly Fruits Inc. Alerta De Alergia Por No Decrarar Alergenos En El Producto - (US Food & Drug Administration) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 10, 2012 - Jonlly Fruits Inc. de Bayamon PR, hace un llamado al cosumidor de sus productos Jonlly Fruit Y Natural Tropic; China, Acerola, Uva, Parcha, Frutas, Limón, Toronja, Guanabana, Guava Piña, China Light, Mandarina, China Zanahoria. Porque prodria contener un tipo de alergeno no declarado en la etiqueta, específicamente; Partilly Hydrogenated Coconut oil, Corn Syrup Solids, Sodium Caseinate (a Milk Derivative), X... Pennsylvania Firm Recalls Chorizo Product Due To Misbranding and an Undeclared Allergen - (USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service) - WASHINGTON, May 10, 2012 - Euro Foods, Inc., which also does business as Citterio USA Corp., a Freeland, Pa. establishment, is recalling approximately 5,156 pounds of a chorizo product because of misbranding and an undeclared allergen. The product contains soy protein, which is an allergen that is not declared on the label, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The products subject to re... The Case of the Contaminated, Reusable Grocery Bag - (FoodSafetyNews.com) - Oregon state senior epidemiologist William Keene is a fan of Berton Roueché, whose books, like Eleven Blue Men, revealed the whodunnit work of epidemiology.
Now Keene, of the Oregon Public Health Division, and fellow sleuth Kimberly Repp, of Oregon Health and Sciences University, have cracked a case and told a real-life detective tale worthy of Roueché.
Writing in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, available here online, Keene and Repp explai... Norovirus Outbreak Caused by Snacks in a Grocery Bag - (ABCNews.com) - Public health researchers identified a reusable grocery bag as the source of a 2010 norovirus outbreak that sickened seven children and adults from Oregon who attended a soccer tournament in neighboring Washington state.
The grocery bag contained cookies, potato chips and fresh grapes, and was kept in the bathroom of a hotel room where one of the girls who got sick stayed with an adult chaperone. The person who put the bag in the bathroom was n... Oysters At New Orleans Restaurant Cause Norovirus - (FoodSafetyNews.com) - Fourteen people became ill with norovirus after eating Gulf oysters at a New Orleans area restaurant on April 28 and 29, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) announced Tuesday.
As a result, DHH has closed a key harvesting area on the Gulf coast east of the Mississippi River and recalled oysters harvested from those areas since April 26. The recall includes all shucked, frozen, breaded, post-harvest processed oysters and oyster... Watch a 1-Hour Webinar on Lean Finely Textured Beef - (FoodSafetyNews.com) - Over the last 2 years, Food Seminars International has produced over 100 online "webinars" on food safety and related fields. FSI often teams up with the Food Processing Suppliers Association to produce their webinars and the speakers are some of the top people in the business.
FSI and FPSA has announced a free 1-hour webinar called "Lean Finely Textured Beef: Separating Myths and Reality," presented by Dr. Keith Warriner of the University of ... Moon Fishery (India) Pvt. Ltd. Recalls Its "Tuna Strips" Product Of India "AA" Or "AAA" Grade Because Of Possible Health Risk
- (US Food & Drug Administration) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 9, 2012 - Moon Fishery (India) Pvt. Ltd., the Manufacturer of the Yellow Fin Tuna Nakaochi Scrape that was recently recalled by a U.S. Distributor, is also recalling its 22 pound cases of "Tuna Strips" Product of India AA or AAA GRADE because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and othe... Solid Gold Health Products for Pets, Inc. Recalls Dog Food Because of Possible Salmonella Health Risk - (US Food & Drug Administration) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 8, 2012 - Solid Gold Health Products for Pets, Inc., El Cajon, California, announced a voluntary recall of one batch of WolfCub Large Breed Puppy Food and one batch of Solid Gold WolfKing Large Breed Adult Dog, both with a Best Before date of December 30, 2012, and an “X” in the 11th digit of the date code.
Solid Gold is voluntarily recalling the products below, distributed in the United States and Canada. This volun... Cleveland Beansprouts Co. of Cleveland, OH is recalling all alfalfa sprouts because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes
- (US Food & Drug Administration) - CLEVELAND, Ohio (May 4, 2012) - Cleveland Beansprouts Co. of Cleveland, OH is recalling all alfalfa sprouts because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections to individuals with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection... USDA Celebrates One Year of Mobile Ask Karen, Food Safety on Your Smartphone - (USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service) - WASHINGTON, May 8, 2012—Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is celebrating the first anniversary of Mobile Ask Karen (m.AskKaren.gov), the mobile app that allows consumers to ask food safety questions at any time of day, instantly from their smartphones. The agency created a mobile version of Ask Karen, its virtual food safety representative who offers advice about properly handling, storing, and ... Copyright © 2012, Online Business Idea. All Rights Reserved. |