The 2019 Annual Conference held by the Mid-Continental Association of Food and Drug Officers welcomes IWasPoisoned.com founder, Patrick Quade, to talk about food safety and social media. The presentation will be February 27 at 08:10 AM CST. This year's conference will be held at the Bluemont Hotel on Manhattan, KS.
Iwaspoisoned.com has identified a total of 67 people who are suffering from food poisoning after eating at Kentucky Fried Chicken in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Those who have fallen ill are from 17 separate parties who have reported their cases to our platform between February 11th - 18th, 2019.
Our collaboration with the World Bank is putting a spotlight on how unsafe food costs economies hundreds of billions of dollars worldwide, yet in many cases surveillance is limited and there are few effective ways for a consumer to report a case of food poisoning. Our groundbreaking effort shows new technology solutions can make a significant contribution to this challenge. It is possible to look to citizen data in order to detect food poisoning and identify issues in real time. This is what motivated us to found and B2B service .
Patrick Quade, who launched IWasPoisoned.com after a bout with food poisoning several years ago, will speak at the 2019 Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) conference in Nice on the French Riveria on February 28. The GSFI brings together key actors of the food industry to collaboratively drive continuous improvement in food safety management systems around the world. The focus this year will be on Emerging Challenges and the Future of Food Safety.
IWasPoisoned.com has identified over 100 people who are sick from food poisoning dating back to mid-December after being at Grand Fiesta Americana Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Local tourism and health officials were contacted, but there has been no response. The most recent reports of illnesses were collected by IWasPoisoned.com was on February 18.
We are pleased to announce our latest feature. Users can now report food poisoning via Facebook Messenger.
We are pleased to announce our latest feature. Users can now report food poisoning via Whatsapp.
The 2019 Winter Educational Conference held by the National Capital Area Environmental Health Association welcomes Iwaspoisoned.com, to speak about food safety and social media. The presentation will be January 31 at 11:00 AM EST at the Fairfax County Health Department,10777 Main St., Fairfax, VA, 22030.
A total 95 percent of the more than 800 staff members of the FDA center that sets and enforces food safety regulations are not working as a result of the partial government shutdown, according to an influential blog. At issue is the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, which has “employees who range from secretaries and other support staff to highly specialized professionals -- such as chemists, microbiologists, toxicologists, food technologists, pathologists, molecular biologists, pharmacologists, nutritionists, epidemiologists, mathematicians, sanitarians, physicians and veterinarians,” says the agency website. Most Center staff members work in the center's headquarters in College Park, MD, but it also operates research facilities in Laurel, MD; Bedford, IL, and in Dauphin Island, AL.
Despite the government shutdown, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will resume inspections of high-risk foods -- such as some produce and cheese -- as early as today, January 15. Food inspections by the agency are exclusively funded by taxpayer money and such work was halted as a result of the closure, which began on December 22.
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