Health and Wellness Archive
FMI Sounds the Alarm on Food Safety
CHICAGO Food Marketing Institute is taking steps to shore up the industry's approach to food safety problems in light of the recent outbreak of contaminations...
Kerr Drug Offers Preventable Disease Assessment Service
Kerr Drug has partnered with health care technology company BioSignia, Research Triangle Park, N.C., this week, to offer customers an in-store, individualized disease risk assessment service....
NACDS Supports Women’s Health Week
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores reported yesterday it is encouraging its member companies to support programs and offer diverse products that enrich the mind, body and spirit alike under the theme of the eighth annual National Women’s Health Week: “It’s Your Time: Pamper Your Mind, Body, and Spirit....
Senate OKs Increase of FDA Drug Regulatory Prowess
In a move meant to increase consumer safety and confidence in prescription drugs, the Senate passed a bill this week that would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration the ability to mandate prescription label changes, pull drugs that are considered dangerous from the market, regulate advertising and order new studies for drugs already on the market....
Unilever Adopts Healthier Marketing Guidelines
Unilever adopted global guidelines earlier this week that aim to prevent future use of underweight models and actors in its advertising. ...
Wal-Mart Latest to Pull Trans Fats
Wal-Mart has announced that the delis inside its Supercenters and Neighborhood Market stores have stopped using partially hydrogenated oils for preparing fried foods including chicken, catfish, corn dogs, french fries and hush puppies. ...
FMI Sustainability Group Seeks to Frame Issues
Food Marketing Institute staged the first meeting of a new Sustainability Task Force at the FMI Show here yesterday. ...
Supervalu Expanding Medication Therapy Management Program
Supervalu, Eden Prairie, Minn., plans to greatly expand its medication therapy management program by September, a company executive told a workshop of the Pharmacy Conference of the Food Marketing Institute, Arlington, Va., this week. ...
Safeway: Pharmacy Key to Total Store Sales Growth
Pharmacy is a large and growing business that can play a key role in growing total store sales, said David Fong, senior vice president, pharmacy, Safeway, Pleasanton, Calif. ...
FDA Warns Pharmaceutical Industry to Test for DEG
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned pharmaceutical manufacturers, suppliers, drug repackers and health professionals who compound medications to be especially vigilant in assuring that glycerin, a sweetener commonly used in liquid over-the-counter and prescription drug products, is not contaminated with diethylene glycol (DEG). ...
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