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You can run, but you can't hide from risks
Brinded is concerned about the impact of our increasingly litigious society and challenges the assumption that companies are ignoring the safety management agenda. "This impression contrasts markedly with my personal experience of the oil and gas industry where I see widespread commitment and ownership of safety at top levels," he says.... view more... (2000-03-08)
Royal Society welcomes Government report on crops of the future
The potential benefits of NFCs, and the myriad of uses to which they could be put, were explored in the Society's submission to the Select Committee, the main points of which were: view more (1999-12-17)
Promoting Child Safety with Computers
Computer technology that provides parents with customized safety information can be an effective way to help their children avoid injury, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. view more (2007-08-06)
'Eatin' (not so) good in the neighborhood'
Living without a car in close proximity to fast food restaurants is associated with excess body mass index and weight gain, according to a University of Pittsburgh study available online and published in the September issue of the Journal of Urban Health. view more (2009-09-02)
Nanotech safety needs specific government risk research strategy and funding
"Prioritizing nanotechnology risk research isn't rocket science," said Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies chief scientist Andrew Maynard. Dr. Maynard's remark is in his testimony today before the federal government's first public meeting focused exclusively on research needs and priorities for the environmental, health and safety risks... view more... (2007-01-04)
Deakin University has developed a prototype tasty snack food with special health benefits
Dr Russell Keast, a senior lecturer in the school of exercise and nutrition sciences, has developed a new snack food with a parmesan cheese cracker, organic mashed potato and special healthy additives. view more (2006-06-27)
New Separation Technology With Carbon Dioxide Is Cleaner And Cheaper
Researchers of Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands have developed a new clean, process to isolate valuable or undesired components from solids, such as components for food products. In contrast to other conventional processes, the new invention concerns a continuous process that can be controlled easily and secondly, leads... view more... (2004-07-05)
IFST Advisory Statement --Contamination of Water: Boil Water Advice
The Institute of Food Science & Technology, through its Public Affairs and Technical & Legislative Committees, with advice from its Professional Food Microbiology Group, has authorised this Advisory Statement, dated January 2004. Introduction In the event of microbiological contamination of mains water supplies, water utilities in the... view more... (2004-01-30)
Introducing the patient safety series (pp 913, 970)
Health care providers, hospital administrators, and politicians face competing challenges to reduce clinical errors, control expenditure, increase access and throughput, and improve quality of care. The safe management of the acutely ill inpatient presents particular difficulties. In the first of five Lancet articles on this topic, Julian Bion and... view more... (2004-03-17)
Food counterfeiting, contamination outpace international regulatory systems
Intentionally contaminated Chinese milk killed several children and sickened 300,000 more, causing concern around an increasingly connected world economy. Demand for inexpensive products virtually guarantees future repeats of food adulteration and counterfeiting from overseas, Michigan State University researchers said, as trade volumes overwhelm... view more... (2009-02-17)
Research that stops the traffic
Research undertaken by Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, Katy Jones and Karen Larter, from the University of Dundee, together with two members of Tayside Police Road Safety Unit, Linda Wallace and Bill Carcary, and published today, Monday 17 December, in the British Journal of Educational Psychology, studied the effectiveness of road safety programmes using an... view more... (2001-12-06)
Happy flies look for a place like home
A happy youth can influence where a fruit fly chooses to live as an adult, according to new research in the American Naturalist. The study, led by Judy Stamps from the University of California at Davis, provides new insight into how animals choose places to live and raise their young. view more (2009-10-21)
Young infants should not be left unattended to sleep in car safety seats
Young infants should not be left unattended to sleep in standard car safety seats, warn researchers in this week's BMJ. view more (2006-12-08)
New regulations tighten controls on restricted chemicals
The Government of Canada is taking action to better control the sale of chemicals that can be used to make explosives. The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, and the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, today announced that new regulations for these chemicals, known as explosives precursors, will be implemented... view more... (2008-03-20)
No evidence that melatonin is effective in treating jet lag
There is no evidence that melatonin is effective in treating secondary sleep disorders or preventing jet lag, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. view more (2006-02-10)
U of M study shows fast food as family meals limits healthy food intake, increases obesity risk
Families whose meals frequently consist of fast food are more likely to have unhealthy eating habits, poor access to healthy foods at home, and a higher risk for obesity, according to researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School. view more (2007-01-09)
Drugs used for cancer-associated anemia linked with increased risk of blood clots, death
Treating anemia with a class of drugs known as erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) is associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (blood clots in the deep veins of the legs or in the lungs) and death among patients with cancer. view more (2008-02-27)
U of Minnesota study says confusion reigns over whole-grain claims in school lunches
While most nutrition experts agree that school lunches should include more whole-grain products, a new study from the University of Minnesota finds that food-service workers lack understanding and the resources to meet that goal. view more (2009-06-03)
Neighborhood safety may play role in obesity
Mothers of young children are more likely to be obese when they perceive their neighborhoods as unsafe, according to a new study in the journal Obesity. view more (2006-05-03)
Is it safe to go shopping?
Surveillance systems and devices that deactivate magnetic security tags at checkouts must limit the strength of their magnetic fields for safety reasons, according to research published today in the Institute of Physics journal Physics in Medicine and Biology. Researchers from the University of Utah investigated the effect of surveillance devices... view more... (2001-10-03)
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