The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to add food products (for humans and for pets) that contain peanut butter to the voluntary recall list. As of Friday afternoon, the recall list included almost 300 products. FDA expects more products will be added to the recall list.
Because the...
Today, the Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) presented 11 healthcare providers with a Community Partnership Award. This award is presented to individuals or groups in Rhode Island whose contributions are exceptional and support the mission of HEALTH.
Each of the eleven providers...
Today, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued updated warnings regarding an outbreak of Salmonella typhimurium. More than 400 people nationwide are believed to have become ill from eating peanut butter or products containing...
The Department of Health (HEALTH) wants to inform all Rhode Islanders that this year, it is even more important to get your annual flu vaccination. Recent information released from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the most common strain of the flu that is circulating...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) and the Department of Elderly Affairs (DEA) are issuing a joint advisory to remind people of precautions to take in extreme cold. Frigid temperatures are predicted to start Wednesday afternoon and continue through the holiday weekend, so it is...
Dorsey Marketing Inc. (DMI) is voluntarily recalling four cocoa products as they may contain melamine. These products were distributed to Big Lots stores during the weeks of September 22, 2008, and September 29, 2008.
The effected products are:
G & J Hot Cocoa Stuffer, item 120144 (UPC...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) announces that effective January 1, 2009, the e-licensing process will take the next planned step towards a paperless and verifiable licensing system. Wallet license cards will no longer be issued to new or renewal licensees as HEALTH’s professional...
Today, the Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) released The Health of Rhode Island’s Hospitals (2007) detailing the financial performance of Rhode Island’s 13 hospitals over the period 2004-2007. The report also evaluates the state’s hospitals compared to those in the Northeast, and...
The Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) is pleased to announce that a recent report card published by the American College of Emergency Physicians ranked the state’s public health and injury prevention efforts as eighth best in the country with a grade of B+ and ranks the state as tied...
