Tag: Food and Drug Administration
Parents are advised to limit their children’s intake of organic eggs following the discovery of PFAS
You couldn’t really make it up: for a long time now, the perceived wisdom has been that eating caged eggs is a bad choice for society, to the extent that today they are frowned upon, some supermarkets have stopped selling them altogether , and the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries wants to phase them […]
The war in Ukraine guided Finns’ Google searches in 2022
The effects of the war can also be seen in the trendy search terms ‘petrol price’ and ‘electricity spot price’. Signs that the coronavirus pandemic has moved to the rearview mirror, on the other hand, are searches for various festivals and last-minute travel offers. “Fortunately, there are also happier things on the lists. Some of […]
Dealing with the Monkeypox crisis: Bavarian Nordic wins FDA approval to supply its vaccine
The World Health Organization declared Monkeypox a global health emergency on July 23, around the same time as the number of confirmed cases reported in the United States reached 3,500—the second highest in the world. So it is good timing for the Danish company Bavarian Nordic that their Jynneos smallpox vaccine, a suitable treatment for […]
High blood pressure may double risk of severe COVID despite full vaccination: Study
According to the study’s lead author Joseph E. EbingerMD, MS, associate professor of cardiology and director of clinical analytics at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, “These findings are important because about half of US adults have high blood pressure. .” In the early stages of the pandemic, COVID-19 vaccinations […]
Danish company supplies the United States with monkey pox vaccine
Following a contract signed by the US government, the Danish company Bavarian Nordic is to supply the USA with a total of 4.4 million monkey pox vaccines. This figure represents the composition of several orders placed by the US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority – the most recent being 2.5 million liquid-frozen doses. Favorable […]
The EU will supply the first batch of monkeypox vaccines to Spain
In mid-June, the Commission purchased 1 09 090 doses of Imvanex smallpox vaccine manufactured by Bavarian Nordic in Denmark and proposed to start deliveries to European Union (EU) Member States and Norway and Iceland by the end of this month. Vaccine doses are distributed proportionally, with countries reporting the highest number of cases prioritized for […]
The feed material at COVID risk is imported to Finland
In 2021, a Finnish fur feed mixture imported fish waste from Denmark for use as a feed raw material. In Denmark, fish waste was stored in a farm that also had dead minks that had been killed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Danish party should have applied to the Finnish Food Safety Authority for […]
Customs suspects the company of smuggling 1.3 million kilos of contaminated feed to Finland
The authorities in Finland suspect that about 1.3 million kilos of contaminated feed raw materials have been illegally imported from Denmark. Customs announced on Tuesday that it would close the investigation into an exceptional case. According to the agency, a Finnish feed producer operating in Ostrobothnia is suspected of having imported contaminated material, fish waste. […]
Avian influenza spreads to mammals
Avian flu is becoming more common in Finland and has begun to spread from birds to mammals, according to nature conservation authorities. So far, the disease has been diagnosed in two foxes, one otter and one lynx. So far, the worst bird flu epidemic last year was in Janakkala in southwestern Finland, where thousands of […]
The United States buys millions of vaccines for dangerous viruses
Officials have rushed to secure vaccines as cases of the rare appox virus continue to appear in the United States and Europe The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has signed an agreement for $ 119 million in vaccines against the appox virus, after a Massachusetts man was diagnosed with the rare but potentially […]
The United States buys millions of vaccine doses for new viruses
Officials have rushed to secure vaccines as cases of the rare appox virus continue to appear in the United States and Europe The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has signed an agreement for $ 119 million in vaccines against the appox virus, after a Massachusetts man was diagnosed with the rare but potentially […]
Mushroom-based meat alternatives that help save the earth’s forests
Potsdam [Germany]May 4 (ANI): Replacing only one-fifth of beef from microbial protein, a meat alternative produced in fermentation tanks, by 2050 could halve deforestation. This new analysis by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has been published in Nature. The ready-to-market meat alternative is very similar in taste and texture, but is a […]
Food Authority: Do not eat reminded chocolate eggs
The Food Agency said Sunday that people should not eat Kinder egg products pulled by chocolate company Ferrero this week. Mika Varjonen According to the Food and Drug Administration, chocolate-borne salmonella epidemics are rare, but urged consumers to do so. "definitely not eating" eggs on the return list. Consumers can check if their eggs have […]
The Food and Drug Administration is relaxing product labeling rules due to wartime shortages
The Food Agency has decided to temporarily relax the product labeling rules due to the food shortage caused by the ongoing war in Ukraine. The crisis may require flexibility in labeling requirements, as manufacturers may have to make sudden changes or changes to ingredients, the authority said in a statement on Thursday. In such cases, […]
In review: This year’s five best Danish scientific discoveries
The past year was a year of general uncertainty as fragile attempts at economic recovery were steamrollered by fresh waves of COVID, Meanwhile, the art industry went up to suffocating restrictions, while meeting friends to soothe the nerves was marked by anxiety and awkward distancing. Science is flourishing But necessity is the mother of invention, […]
Researchers are creating a new test to quickly identify COVID-19 infection and its severity
The researchers developed a blood test that quickly detects whether someone has COVID-19 and predicts how severely the immune system will react to the infection. The study was published in PLOS One. The findings may one day lead to an effective tool to help physicians determine the best treatment plan for COVID-19 patients. There is […]
First oral Covid treatment approved in the EU
Pfizer’s pills have been recommended for clinically vulnerable patients The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has given its conditional approval to Pfizer’s Covid-19 pills, amid the continued spread of the Omicron variant of the virus in the region. Announce the Conditional Marketing Authorization (CMA) for the treatment, EMA sa that Paxlovid has been recommended “for the […]
Rapid antigen tests are less sensitive to Omicron variant infections: US Food and Drug Administration
The FDA provided data based on preliminary results of some antigen tests using patient samples containing live viruses. The FDA has said it will continue to work with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) RADx program to further evaluate the performance of antigen tests using patient samples containing live viruses. The SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated […]
