Food Allergy

Food Additives and Contaminants

Salmonella newport

Salmonella in humans Salmonella bacteria cause food poisioning, typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever. More than 2500 different strains of salmonella have been identified.  Anyone can get salmo...

Clostridium perfringens Food Poisoning

Risk Factors

Health Canada's announcement confirms safety of BPA use in food-contact materials

In response to the release of Health Canada's Updated Assessment of Bisphenol A (BPA) Exposure from Food Sources, which found that that BPA is safe for use in food-contact materials, the American Chem...

FDA Drug Safety Communication: Update on the risk for serious bleeding events with the anticoagulant Pradaxa

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has evaluated new information about the risk of serious bleeding associated with use of the anticoagulants (blood thinners) dabigatran (Pradaxa) and warfari...

FDA’s Social Media Messages Should Be Pretested, Risk Communication Advisors Say

Risk Communication Advisory Committee members express support for FDA’s social media plans, but emphasize the importance of pretesting messages and studying the impact of agency efforts.

Rx Safety Communication In Face Of Uncertainty, Multiple Risks, To Be Examined By FDA Panel

FDA’s Risk Communication Advisory Committee will delve into research on communicating uncertainty and how individuals perceive risk and seek information when confronted with multiple risks, during a...

Junk Food May Significantly Hike Risk of Stroke

People who eat a so-called "Western diet," which is high in fat, salt and sugar, are at significantly greater risk for stroke or premature death, according to a new study involving rats. Researchers...

Why Canada should not ban biotech food ingredients

Prohibiting the use of biotech ingredients in food products in Canada would drive up the grocery bill of average consumers by -More- 

Island Abbey Foods Ltd CEO John Rowe Has Been Awarded the 2013 Food Industry Leadership Award by Food in Canada Magazine

Charlottetown, PE, Canada (PRWEB) February 22, 2013 Island Abbey Foods Ltd, a PEI based natural health product and specialty food producer, has announced today that John Rowe, the creator of the H...

Start Your New Year Right by Following Canada’s Food Guide

Almost everyone makes New Year’s resolutions at some point in their lives. Many Canadians each year resolve to eat better and become more physically active. If these are among your goals for 2013, l...

Communication Deviance in parents of families with adoptees at a high or low risk of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and its associations with attributes of the adoptee and the adoptive parents.

Communication Deviance (CD) in rearing parents is a known indicator of a psychopathology risk in the offspring, but the direction of the effects of these two factors on each other has remained an unre...

Toddler foods, children's foods: assessing sodium in packaged supermarket foods targeted at children.

OBJECTIVE: To critically examine child-oriented packaged food products sold in Canada for their sodium content, and to assess them light of intake recommendations, the current policy context and sugge...

Risk of endometrial cancer in relation to individual nutrients from diet and supplements.

OBJECTIVE: Intake of nutrients may influence the risk of endometrial cancer (EC). We aimed to estimate the association of intake of individual nutrients from food and from food plus supplements with E...

The risk to human islet cell transplant recipients of acquiring variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease: a provisional quantitative risk assessment.

Communication and Behavior Change Challenges to Limiting the Development of Antibiotic Resistance.