Category: Issue 396
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Dutch Ministry Issues Nanotech Safety Guidance for Workplaces
The Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment has issued guidance for employers and employees working with nanomaterials and nanoproducts. The guidance provides information about designing suitable control measures to limit exposures according to the current state of knowledge about nanomaterial safety. It also recommends ways of instructing employees about good work practices, potential risks…
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British Docs to Fatten Wallets with Advice to Obese Patients
General practitioners (GPs) in the United Kingdom will reportedly receive payments each time they advise patients to lose weight and by maintaining lists of those who exceed weight guidelines. The GPs will apparently be able to offer free memberships in diet clubs, paid for by the National Health Service (NHS), as part of the new…
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FDA Studies Labeling Claims on Whole-Grain Products
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking public comment on a study examining labeling claims on whole-grain products. Titled “Experimental Study on Consumer Responses to Whole Grain Labeling Statements on Food Packages,” the study is part of the agency’s “continuing effort to enable consumers to make informed dietary choices and construct healthful diets,” according…
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FDA Meeting to Target FSMA’s Inspections, Compliance Provisions
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a public meeting to discuss inspections and compliance provisions of the recently enacted Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Set for June 6, 2011, in Silver Spring, Maryland, the meeting will allow stakeholders to comment on FSMA’s implementation strategies regarding (i) “enforcement authorities”; (ii) “frequency and targeting of…
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CSPI Wants FSIS to Declare Salmonella in Meat and Poultry an Adulterant
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has filed a citizen petition “requesting that the administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) . . . issue an interpretive rule declaring certain delineated strains of antibiotic-resistant [ABR] Salmonella, when found in ground meat and ground poultry, to be adulterants” under federal law.…