Hazard analysis and critical control points, or HACCP, is a systematic preventive approach to food safety and pharmaceutical safety that identifies physical, allergenic, chemical, and biological hazards in production processes that can ...
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A UK packaging company has been fined after one of its employees sustained a serious hand injury on an unguarded laminating machine. Gary Dean of Redstock Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, had the skin on the palm of his left hand torn ...
The Navigators Group, a commercial property/casualty insurer, has implemented AIR Worldwide's CLASIC/2 and CATRADER modeling technologies to manage its global catastrophe business. The catastrophe models are expected to be used by the ...
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Philadelphia based health insurer Independence Blue Cross (IBC) has introduced a virtual wellness coaching program, the WebMD Digital Health Assistant (DHA), to assist members make positive lifestyle choices and healthy behavior change. ...
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The US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have introduced a new tool that will help scientists improve the quality of data that is used to safeguard consumers ...
Tags: the quality of data, safeguard consumers, pathogen-related risks
US insurance brokerage and risk management services firm Arthur J Gallagher & Co has acquired Nebraska based independent employee benefits consulting firm Brendis & Brendis, for an undisclosed sum. The acquired enterprise also offers ...
Food sourced from cloned animals and their offspring do not pose any safety concerns compared to products from conventional sources,according to the latest review by the European Food Safety Authority(EFSA). The review,which is line with ...
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Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production (WRAP), in partnership with Accordia Global Compliance Group and in collaboration with several Pakistani trade bodies, will offer 5 fire safety training courses in Karachi and Lahore during ...
The European Commission (EC) has stated in its latest review that the safety of nanomaterials should be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. The regulator said in its second regulatory review on nanomaterials that these materials are ...
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Quest Diagnostics has introduced a molecular cervical cancer test based on National Institutes of Health's TERC gene marker to identify molecular changes to cervical cells that increase the chance of a woman to develop cervical cancer. ...
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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has delayed the release of a re-evaluation of the sweetener aspartame, in order to facilitate additional review of new data. While the release was scheduled for September 2012, the EFSA had asked ...
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The French Agency for Food Health Safety (ANSES) has called on the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to classify BPA as a more severe category 1 reprotoxic substance under the EU rules on the classification, labeling and packaging (CLP) of ...
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The Health Canada has approved a label change for Biogen Idec's Tysabri to include anti-JC virus (JCV) antibody status as a risk factor for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). The product monograph change will help enable ...
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Marshall & Swift/Boeckh (MSB) has signed an agreement with Pictometry International to add new Risk Visualization capability to RCT Express, in an effort to enhance risk assessment accuracy at policy creation for insurers. The partnership ...
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CeeTox and Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) have introduced a new predictive cardiac safety screening service, Cardiac Arrhythmia Assessment Screen (CAAS), which uses human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell-derived cardiomyocytes. ...