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14 Mar 2012, 10:43 am by Michael Markarian
Despite intense budget pressures, Congress responded to these concerns and in November 2011 enacted significant increases in USDA’s budget to improve enforcement of both the AWA and the HPA. [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 12:48 pm by Michael Markarian
Farr provided critical help last year winning enactment of a 40 percent increase in funding for the Horse Protection Act, the law that prohibits soring of show horses (the first time in decades that HPA enforcement, also strongly criticized by USDA’s Inspector General, received more than $500,000). [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 4:50 am by Dianne Saxe
Table 1 provides a summary of early exposures (in utero or childhood) for which there is evidence of associations with prevalent chronic diseases addressed in this review: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) • Lead, smoking, particulate air pollution, • Substances associated with cardiac birth defects • Substances associated with low birth weight • Endocrine disrupting substances affecting insulin signalling (BPA and phthalates), adult dev’mt of polycystic ovarian syndrome (BPA… [read post]
13 Dec 2011, 1:59 am
 Local environmental health officials and the United Kingdom's Health Protection Agency (HPA) are focused an unapproved crab supplier. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 1:59 am
HPA is the independent agency for threats from infectious diseases and environmental hazards. [read post]
21 Nov 2011, 4:00 pm
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) have issued a warning that all fuel and wood burning appliances should be checked by a registered engineer before the winter comes. [read post]
20 Jul 2011, 1:35 pm by Brady Iandiorio
The HPA was not drafted with the intent to void standard form AIA contracts, such as the Contract between Caribou and Zero Energy. [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 2:59 am
The new HPA guidelines for managing E. coli cases cover emergency medicine, pediatrics, and all public health and health protection professional including both primary care and specialists. [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 2:59 am
The UK's Health Protection Agency (HPA) said in a July 7 statement that one of the patients it had earlier linked to the outbreak was found to have a different illness, and the case has been deleted from its total, which the HPA said now stands at 17, including three with HUS. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 3:54 pm
 ProgramTraining program coordinated and run by David Clapham, Principal Environmental Health Manager, Bradford and Alan Lacey, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Sainsburys Supermarkets Speakers include:Food poisoning organisms and recent food poisoning outbreaksDr Bob Adak, Head, Epidemiological Services Department of Gastrointestinal, Emerging & Zoonotic InfectionsHPA Centre for Infections Statistics: Proving what you need to proveAndré Charlett, Head of Statistics, Modelling and… [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 3:01 pm by Oliver G. Randl
This is also true for document C according to which the term “Vacuum” describes the state of a fluid in a volume at a pressure below the atmospheric pressure at normal conditions, and the range between 1000 and 1 hPa (= mbar) is called “Grobvakuum” (weak vacuum). [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 4:06 am
Since 1 December 2010, the HPA Laboratory of Gastrointestinal Pathogens has confirmed and reported 50 human isolates of vero cytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) O157, phage type (PT) 8, expressing genes for Vero Toxin (VT) VT1+2 from laboratories in England and Wales. [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 11:46 am by jcampbell
 New Phthalates Regulations under the Hazardous Products Act (HPA) were registered on December 9 2010, and will come into force on June 9, 2011. [read post]
5 Jan 2011, 1:59 am
"HPA provides advice for the public on avoiding infection on farm visits, and UK's Health and Safety Executive provides guidance for those running and visiting petting farms. [read post]
16 Dec 2010, 12:00 am
  This report from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has advised us that the top five countries that have been relabelled as holiday illness hotspots are Egypt, India, Thailand, Pakistan and Morocco. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 1:59 am
HPA lists Western Europe, USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand as "low risk" countries. [read post]
1 Nov 2010, 2:59 am
Joe Kearney, a director with Local and Regional Services Division, is chairing an outbreak control team comprising representatives from HPA, the FSA, Health Protection Scotland and Environmental Health Officers from a number of local authorities. [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 2:59 am
Starting in 2011, hospitals in the United Kingdom will be reporting on two more types of "health care associated" infections--E coli and methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA).UK hospital infection control teams already monitor MRSA and C difficile (CDI).Health Minister Andrew Lansley said the expanded reporting is designed to determine how many E. coli and MSSA cases are occurring in health care settings.E. coli infections in the UK are up by 37 percent since 2005, according… [read post]
6 Oct 2010, 6:14 pm by Robert Elliott, J.D.
(WCxKit) A research team of the HPA carried out a questionnaire of people infected. [read post]