Healthcare data expert Mohamed Humaidi, senior vice president of data and analytics at the New York and Florida-based health coordinator CareAbout, broke down how clinical practices and health systems can enhance and streamline the complicated processes of identifying and reaching vulnerable patients and how the company is using a new tool to help them do
Founded in November 2020, Off-Piste Provisions has produced some of New Zealand’s first plant-based jerkies and toppers, specialising in flavoured plant-based snacks, with other products including biltong and crackling.Speaking to FoodNavigator-Asia, its founder Jade Gray highlighted that the main draw of its products is the texture – having ‘a lot more lifelike meat fibre analogue
The new express system is being overseen by the Thai Food and Drug Administration (FDA).“This new service will work to swiftly inspect and release imported goods including foods and beverages through Thai checkpoints with the need of nothing more than a single ID card from the person-in-charge,” Thai FDA Secretary-General Dr Paisarn Dankum said during
The CDC has announced it will begin tracking infections caused by cronobacter, which was behind an outbreak in 2021-22 among babies and caused an infant formula shortage that plagued the nation for months. The council is the body that recommends what diseases are “reportable.” That list already includes illnesses from other foodborne pathogens, including E.
Consumer Reports (CR) is out with a new study of heavy metals in baby food. CR’s latest tests included 14 products, representing a mix of fruits and vegetables; meals and entrees; and snacks, such as bars, puffs, and teething wafers. At least three samples of each product were tested and the 14 products likely to
By News Desk on June 28, 2023 The Food and Drug Administration is continuing its use of import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below. Click here to
The number of people sick has gone up in Denmark, but the number of outbreaks remained stable in 2022, according to recently released data. In 2022, there were 5,142 cases of Campylobacter and 899 cases of Salmonella, compared to 3,740 and 692 in 2021. Of Campylobacter and Salmonella cases in the past year, 28 percent
The head of the Food and Drug Administration says his evolving plan to restructure the food side of the agency is moving forward with changes planned for regulatory affairs, but two key observers say the movement falls short of necessary steps to ensure the effectiveness of the reorganization. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf this afternoon announced
The American Medical Association this week announced the nine new healthcare organizations who will split nearly $600,000 as part of its Electronic Health Record Use Research Grant Program. WHY IT MATTERS This batch of grant recipients will divvy up some $589,000 from AMA as they research the trends and patterns of how their physicians and nurses
A lot of people today are having troubles trusting artificial intelligence not to become sentient and take over the world à la “The Terminator.” For the time being in healthcare, one of the big questions for clinicians is: Can I trust AI to help me make decisions about patients? Today’s podcast seeks to provide some answers with