Friday, May 8, 2009
CDC Says Mesothelioma Deaths Increasing
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Swine Flu - Be Happy - - - FDA Worries About Mad Cow Disease - BSE
The world is a dangerous place. Where can you go to escape the scourge of swine flu?! OK, a little melodramatic. In any event, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a final guidance document April 30 about the substances prohibited for use in animal feed, relating to its new rule to protect against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The so-called BSE rule became effective April 27, but renderers will have additional time to comply with new requirements. The FDA's established compliance date is Oct. 26. The new guidance document should help slaughter facilities and farms supplying offal and dead livestock to renderers to understand their responsibilities in regard to the new rule. Feeling any safer?! FDA Reference Documents: FDA Issues Final Guidance for Renderers on Substances Prohibited From Use in Animal Food or Feed GUIDANCE FOR INDUSTRY SMALL ENTITIES COMPLIANCE GUIDE FOR RENDERERS—SUBSTANCES PROHIBITED FROM USE IN ANIMAL FOOD OR FEED (pdf) FDA Page on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
Monday, May 4, 2009
Medical Devices Infected By The Conficker PC Worm
Be very afraid. Hospital and medical devices have been found to be infected by a computer worm (kind of like a virus), reports this Mercury News article, Conficker worm hits hospital devices, "A computer worm that has alarmed security experts around the world has crawled into hundreds of medical devices at dozens of hospitals in the United States and other countries, according to technologists monitoring the threat." What I find so disturbing in the article is, "the working group has seen thousands of other machines located in hospitals reach out to the Conficker mastermind by contacting another computer on the Internet for instructions." The potential danger could be leaking of your health information, or the medical devices could be recruited as robots in an attack on other computer systems. Isn't technology grand!?
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