Posted in Mobile Health by Nancy Crotti on January 7, 2015 A little more than a year ago, a top executive of Qualcomm Life predicted that smartphones would one day be considered medical devices. Qualcomm's 2Net Hub is a ...
Tags: smartphones, medical devices, Health
Posted in Medical Device Business by Brian Buntz on January 8, 2015 Pete Nicholas, who co-founded Boston Scientific with John Abele in 1979, has announced that he intends to resign from the firm’s board of directors in 2017. ...
Food processing giant OSI Group has termed accusations made by Shanghai Municipal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as ‘misleading’, stating that its use does not meet the ‘questionable products’ definition ...
Tags: past-due meat products, Drug Administration, Agriculture
Command Medical Products, Inc. has doubled cleanroom manufacturing space in its Managua, Nicaragua facility. Construction completed on the additional ISO Class 7 clean room (Class 10,000) and the room was certified operational in November, ...
US-based Zilks Foods is voluntarily recalling its 8oz hummus products, as they are expected to contain undeclared peanuts. The products associated with the recall include 8oz packs of Bacon Hummus, Balsamic & Garlic Hummus, Hatch Green ...
Tags: Undeclared Peanuts, Agriculture
Spanaway based Kkot Saem Sprouts has recalled Soybean Sprouts and Mungbean Sprouts due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. The recalled products were distributed under brand names ...
Tags: soybean sprouts, Winter Blossom, Agriculture
Reily Foods, a US-based firm, is recalling certain Carroll Shelby brand and Wick Fowler brand chili seasoning kits owing to undeclared allergens. The firm took this step after learning that one or more of the spice ingredients sourced ...
Tags: peanut, allergens, Agriculture
INDA, the association for nonwoven fabrics industry has nominated four finalists for the fourth annual Research, Innovation & Science for Engineered (RISE) Fabrics Conference Durable Product Award. The RISE Durable Product Award is ...
Tags: light materials, airlaid products, tensile features, Textile
Right now, many elected officials in various places have been moving towards restriction or prohibitions of electronic cigarettes. However, not everyone in the public service sector believes that ecig use has no place in society. There are ...
Drones are now widely used by the military. And both Amazon and Google and experimental programs to use drones to deliver packages. In the medical sector, drones have been envisioned as a means to carry emergency medical devices such as ...
Tags: drone technology, packages, Health
Dukane - Intelligent Assembly Solutions Dukane Corporation introduces ‘iQ Series Integrated Servo Driven Ultrasonic Welder’ with patented Melt-Match technology. Integrated Servo is a self-contained unit with Dukane's patented iQ ...
Tags: Melt-Match Technology, iQ Series, Health
Kinsa, a New York City–based maker of an FDA-cleared smart thermometer has won $9.6 million in Series A financing, which includes funding from Kleiner Perkins and others. The company’s thermometer can plug into a smartphone ...
Tags: horsepower, display, Health
Posted in Regulatory and Compliance by Kristopher Sturgis on December 12, 2014 Bill Maisel, director of science at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, holds CRM devices. Earlier this week the science chief of ...
Tags: Medical Device, Drug Administration, Health
MeadWestvaco Corp. (MWV) has received a grant to provide its Medication Event Monitoring System (MEMS) to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in projects to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. MEMSCap Medication Event Monitoring System ...
Tags: Monitoring System, Packaging
US-based establishment Global Garlic is recalling certain De Mi Pais fresh curd products as they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria Monocytogenes, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The products ...
Tags: Garlic, Fresh Curd Products