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On Tuesday, March 10, we successfully tested …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
As part of the FDA’s commitment to transparency, for the first time it has begun posting data from CFSAN’s Adverse Event Reporting System (CAERS) on FDA.gov here and through OpenFDA. It’s downloadable in ASCII format, which is amenable to automated querying.
The database contains information on adverse event and product complaint reports submitted to the FDA for Center for Food …
By Rick Kingston, President, Regulatory and Scientific Affairs
It has been a number of years since there has been any change to the EPA’s adverse event reporting systems. The last major change came in with passage of the 6(a)(2) provision in 1997, which set forth requirements for reporting of adverse events involving EPA registered products. EPA subsequently put out PR …
A huge congratulations to SafetyCall’s Dr. Kelly Sioris on being recognized as the University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy Mentor of the Year for 2014! Kelly was nominated by her students and was selected out of 450 other mentors to win the award. According to the University’s website, the Mentor of the Year is an individual who has shown support …
The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the leading trade association for the dietary supplement and functional food industry, invites you to join a month-long celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA). The celebratory effort will make strong use of CRN’s online platforms throughout the month of October, and involve consumer education; recognition of …
