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SafetyCall recently attended the Canadian Health Food Association’s (CHFA) eastern regulatory conference on September 12-13th and exhibited at the trade show September 14-15th, 2019. This was the first conference and trade show SafetyCall has attended with CHFA. Plans are already in the works to attend the western show in February 2020.
Much of the talk at the conference mirrored the …
SafetyCall International (SCI) and Pet Poison Helpline (PPH) are turning fifteen this year! To mark this important milestone, we wanted to look back at what’s made our company so successful, as well as see what’s in store for the future.
While our company’s roots stretch all the way back to 1984, the SCI and PPH of today officially launched in …
Safetycall’s Dr. Rick Kingston will be presenting on serious adverse event reporting (SAER) data and observations during an upcoming AHPA webinar.
Joining Dr. Kingston will be Ashish Talati, a partner with Amin Talati & Wasserman, and one of the industries foremost experts on FDA regulatory matters. In addition AHPA Chief Information Officer Dr. Merele Zimmermann will participate. The topics covered …
Recently, we’ve been contacted by clients that have had their products pulled from Amazon after individual consumers have posted unsubstantiated allegations that their product caused them to become ill. In some cases, consumers have indicated in their product review that they needed to go to the ER but provided little detail regarding any diagnosis and/or treatment information and whether or …
SafetyCall International/Pet Poison Helpline is excited to announce that we have been awarded our 9th Star Tribune Top Workplace award! The Star Tribune Top 150 Workplaces is an employee nominated award given to Minnesota companies with at least 50 employees who are ranked based on the results of an employee initiated survey. This year, over 2,400 companies participated with over …
Recently, Harvard researchers conducted a study involving dietary supplements, later published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, to review adverse event reports from January 2004 to April 2015 using data from the FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS). The FAERS is a database that contains line listings of select fields of data from Adverse Event (AE) reports contained …
Annie Asplen, Paramedic, MS
Medical Writer, Regulatory Assistant, Senior Information Specialist
Syrup of ipecac, the drug that causes quick and forceful vomiting, was once considered to be an important treatment for ingested poisons. However, as researchers learned more about toxicology, it was eventually discovered that activated charcoal was a better way to prevent the absorption of poisons, and that ipecac …
Annie Asplen, Paramedic, MS
Medical Writer, Regulatory Assistant, Senior Information Specialist
Most of our work is done independently, with team members helping callers one-on-one. Because of this, it can be difficult for our agents to assess the quality of their own work, which is vital to continued improvement. That’s why our quality control (QC) program is in place to help …
