Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2018
Annie Asplen, Paramedic, MS
Medical Writer, Regulatory Assistant, Senior Information Specialist
Some of the case scenarios that we handle at SafetyCall are very common. Whether it’s a dog who chewed on a roach motel or a child who ate too many gummy vitamins, we sometimes get so practiced at handling similar calls that we could recite them from beginning to …
Annie Asplen, Paramedic, MS
Medical Writer, Regulatory Assistant, Senior Information Specialist
Some employees have been with SafetyCall for a decade or more. Some of us have bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, or doctorates. Some of us have taught university classes in public health, published papers on toxicology, or trained newly-hired employees. With that kind of experience, it would be easy to …
Annie Asplen, Paramedic, MS
Medical Writer, Regulatory Assistant, Senior Information Specialist
At SafetyCall, we realize that the quality of our work can mean the difference between success and failure for our clients. For our callers, it can mean even more, since our first aid recommendations often determine how potentially dangerous chemical exposures are handled. To say that we take this …
At SafetyCall, our clients often tell us we bring them “peace of mind.” We love to hear that, since our mission is to make the world a safer place by assuring and providing quality care for our clients and their customers. The customer piece is especially important to our clients, and it’s where our Call Center shines.
SafetyCall health …
Ryan Seaverson
Quality Assurance & Regulatory Manager
Many of our clients at SafetyCall market products that are regulated by the FDA, which makes the companies subject to numerous record keeping requirements, including the documentation of adverse events. The FDA defines the term “adverse event” as any health-related event associated with the use of a FDA regulated product that is …
Rick Kingston
President, Regulatory and Scientific Affairs/Sr. Clinical Toxicologist
It’s been more than a decade since Facebook and Twitter launched in the mid-2000s. At the time, we couldn’t have predicted the sphere of influence social media would have on society – and our businesses.
For most companies, social media has become a managed function alongside more traditional marketing functions like …
It’s been 10 years since mandatory adverse event reporting (AER) for dietary supplements and OTC drugs has been in place. During that time there has been an evolution of systems and processes associated with AERs. The focus has shifted from manufacturers simply meeting the letter of the law and filing Serious AEs with the FDA to them being held accountable …
A recent Cochrane review entitled “Antioxidant vitamin and mineral supplements for slowing the progression of age-related macular degeneration” provided a useful review of the science on the topic. But, like many studies that review or discuss the use of dietary supplements, the authors qualified the positive data with an often times used cliché suggesting there just “might” be …
Dr. Rick Kingston shares this thoughts with Nutra Ingredients-USA on dietary supplement adverse events and the overstated risk of poison control center data.
A study that found a rising tide of reports to poison control centers about dietary supplement exposures reaches some faulty conclusions, say experts familiar with adverse event reporting.
As previously published and shared on Natural Products Insider.
In an effort to promote transparency, FDA improved access to adverse events reports (AERs) via an online database that provides a variety of information in a search-friendly format. Though the database is intended to be a tool, the type and breadth of information, along with how the information is presented, …
