By News Desk on July 6, 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 Scottish Food Crime and Incidents Unit (SCFCIU) has secured its first major conviction since the agency was created in 2015. Food Standards Scotland (FSS) welcomed the sentencing of Jamie George, who supplied the public with a potentially fatal substance sold as a diet pill for weight loss. The 32-year-old was sentenced at Stirling Sheriff
Pi’ara Functional Foods Ltd. is recalling Haskalife brand Pure Haskap Berry Super Shots over possible spoilage. According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the recalled product has been sold in Alberta, Canada, and online. Recalled products: BrandProductSizeCodesUPCHaskalifePure Haskap Berry Super Shots60 ml23 JN 226 27987 76714 8 Consumption of food contaminated with spoilage organisms can
Food safety-conscious consumers want a “Made in the USA” label they can trust, according to survey research conducted during the past decade. But for beef and pork products, it’s not possible to trust statements about the origin because the Mandatory Country of Origin Law (MCOOL) was repealed by Congress in 2016. The Billings, MT-based Ranchers
For Texas health system Houston Methodist, the major challenges to obtaining completed advance care directives included the time constraints of primary care physicians in addressing advance care planning with their patients. THE PROBLEM In addition, patients too often crash during a hospitalization with no advance care directives in place to guide care. “We were seeking
Northwell Health is expanding a new burn triage telehealth service to help doctors assess whether burn patients that present in emergency rooms can be treated onsite or need to be transported via ambulance or helicopter to the health system’s burn ICU. WHY IT MATTERS Staten Island University Hospital’s burn center specialists now provide teleburn consults
The World Health Organization signed an agreement with HL7 to jointly develop guidelines and advance the adoption of open interoperability standards that WHO says are critical to the development of equitable and evidence-based digital health. WHY IT MATTERS As part of its global digital health strategy, “There is a call for WHO to provide global guidance
In the December 2022 AI & Analytics Study of 250 health system leaders, the Advisory Board depicted how artificial intelligence had shifted from transformational in nature (as reported in their 2018 study) to merely adding incremental value to healthcare. The incremental value in healthcare came in the form of narrow AI, focused on solving individual
With Emergency Triage, Treat and Transport, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services covers emergency medical response providers transporting patients to an alternative facility, such as a primary care office or community mental health center. ET3 also covers emergency responders to initiate treatment in place with a qualified healthcare partner – either at the
A graduate student at Southern Methodist University (SMU), has developed a miniature pH sensor that can detect when food has spoiled in real-time. The 2-millimeter long and 10-millimeter wide flexible pH sensor is designed to be incorporated into food packaging, such as plastic wrapping. Traditional pH meters are too bulky to be included in every