The Infectious Diseases Society of America’s 10 × ’20 Initiative (10 New Systemic Antibacterial Agents US Food and Drug Administration Approved by 2020): Is 20 × ’20 a Possibility?

Recalls of foods contaminated with pathogens help reduce the transmission of infectious diseases. Here, we summarize the number and nature of foods recalled as a result of microbiological contamination, classified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the period 1 October 2002 through 30 September 2011. Microbiological contamination accounted for 1,395 (42%) of 3,360 recalls of food during this period. Nuts and edible seeds, followed by fishery–seafood products and spices, were the types of products most commonly recalled for microbiological contamination. Salmonella contamination accounted for the greatest number of food products recalled due to microbiological contamination, and was the pathogen most often linked to reported outbreaks involving recalled food products.

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Summary of the 2008 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases–US Food and Drug Administration Workshop on Food Allergy Clinical Trial Design

Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology ◽

10.1016/j.jaci.2009.05.027 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 124 (4) ◽

pp. 671-678.e1 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Marshall Plaut ◽

Richard T. Sawyer ◽

Matthew J. Fenton

Keyword(s):

Clinical Trial ◽

Food Allergy ◽

Infectious Diseases ◽

Drug Administration ◽

Trial Design ◽

Food And Drug Administration ◽

Clinical Trial Design

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Children Vaccination of COVID-19

Borneo Journal of Medical Sciences (BJMS) ◽

10.51200/bjms.vi.3357 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-3

Author(s):

Sadia Choudhury Shimmi ◽

M Tanveer Hossain Parash

Keyword(s):

Clinical Trial ◽

Infectious Diseases ◽

Drug Administration ◽

Food And Drug Administration ◽

Severe Illness ◽

White House ◽

Number Of Children ◽

Predominant Variant ◽

Vaccines For Children

The Delta variant is currently the highly contagious predominant variant of the SARSCoV-2 virus worldwide that causes severe illness more than the previous variants in unvaccinated people (CDC, 2021). At a White House briefing, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director, Anthony Fauci, predicted that there would be an increase in the number of child hospitalisation proportionate to the increased number of children getting infected with the Delta variant (Press briefing White House, 2021). In response to this situation, the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) approved Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for children aged 12 – 17 years. Vaccines in children aged 5 – 11 years are currently under clinical trial (Sick-Samuels & Messina, 2021).

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Aspirin Consumption and Severity of Reye's Syndrome

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.71.2.294 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 71 (2) ◽

pp. 294-295

Author(s):

KAREN M. STARKO

Keyword(s):

Infectious Diseases ◽

American Academy ◽

Disease Control ◽

Drug Administration ◽

Food And Drug Administration ◽

Case Control ◽

Reye's Syndrome ◽

American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽

Confounding Variables

In Reply.— The Center for Disease Control,1 the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics,2 and The Food and Drug Administration,3 have concluded that the studies conducted in Arizona,4 Michigan,5 and Ohio6 indicate that a statistically significant association exists between Reye's syndrome (RS) and salicylate use. Reasons for this association being false, such as case-control misclassification, the influence of confounding variables (fever, headache) etc, have been addressed by these groups. Although concerns have been raised regarding these factors, none has been shown to account for the association.

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