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Scenes from AIHce 16 Day One

AIHce 16 features an interactive trivia game throughout the convention center, attracting attendees.

FDA Updates Nutrition Labels for Most Packaged Foods

The new label is an updated design highlighting calories and servings, with requirements for serving sizes that more closely reflect the amounts of food that Americans currently eat, according to FDA.

AIHA Honors 2016 Award Winners This Week

The American Industrial Hygiene Association® will honor the winners of its 2016 AIHA awards, chosen because they have made significant contributions to the industrial hygiene and occupational and environmental health and safety professions, on May 25 during the second annual Mark of Excellence Awards Breakfast at the 2016 American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition.



NIOSH Holding Teleconference on Birth Defects of Children of IBM Endicott Employees

The teleconference will take place May 26. It is the second part of a study on causes of death and testicular cancer cases among former IBM-Endicott workers.

Safety Failures Allowed Machine to Sever Worker's Fingertips: OSHA

The incident happened at a Nature’s Path subsidiary in Wisconsin

ECHA Publishes Annex III Inventory

The inventory helps REACH registrants that manufacture or import between 1 to 10 tonnes per year in deciding whether they may be able to register their substance with limited information. The database contains 64,899 unique substances/entries.

Flex Work Consultation Under Way in Canada

Canadians can submit their views through an online survey open until June 30, and the government will hold roundtables nationwide in coming weeks to hear from employers, workers, academics, and others.

Canada Moving Toward Mandatory Reporting of Drug Shortages

Health Canada's outreach indicates that Canadians believe that current voluntary approach to reporting is not meeting their needs, and they called for mandatory reporting.

CDC Expanding Disease Identification Tool

MicrobeNet will allow better and quicker germ identification and health response.

Coast Guard Releases 2015 Recreational Boating Statistics Report

Boating fatalities were the third-lowest on record.

Zika Outbreak Fairly Likely in Europe Soon: WHO

The overall risk of a Zika virus outbreak across the WHO European Region is low to moderate during late spring and summer, according to a new risk assessment from the WHO Regional Office for Europe.

GAO is also evaluating the electromagnetic event preparedness of U.S. electricity providers and is making a technical assessment of protective equipment that could mitigate the impacts of a geomagnetic disturbance on electrical infrastructure.

Electromagnetic Pulse Report Calls on DHS, DOE to Identify Key Infrastructure

The GAO report released May 17 said the two agencies had not acted to identify key infrastructure assets as required, given their responsibilities under the National Infrastructure Protection Plan. Both agencies concurred with the recommendation, according to the report.

FAA Tests Drone Detection System at JFK

The FAA is partnering with the FBI to detect “rogue” drones around airports.

The NFPA Standards Council wants input by June 17, 2016, from stakeholders who are using robotics in their emergency response activities.

NFPA Wants Input on Emergency Responders' Use of Robotics

The organization's Standards Council has received a request to begin developing an ANSI standard on operational protocol and professional qualifications for operators of robotics, including drones, used in emergency responder applications.

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