Food Investigation Board

Haines, R. B., and D. E. Lea. Use of ultra-violet light in the preservation of foodstuffs—action on bacteria, pp. 30-31. In Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Report of the Food Investigation Board for the Year 1936. London His Majesty s Stationery Office, 1937. 

Thermal Properties of Melhyl Chloride, Food Investigation Board, Dept. Sou Ind. Research (Great Britain), No. 19 (1924) von Siemens,... 

Lovem, J.A. (1942). The composition of the depot fats of aquatic animals. Special Reports of the Food Investigation Board, Lond. 51,1-72. 

Reay, G.A. (1957). Factors affecting initial and keeping quality. Food Investigation Board, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Annual Report 1957, p.3. 

In 1906, Judd was appointed as Lecturer in Chemistry and Physics at Goldsmiths College. She relinquished the position in 1916, returning to IC to undertake war work for the Silk Institute, silk being a highly important material in the war, particularly for the envelopes of observation balloons. With the war ended, she obtained a post as Researcher for the Food Investigation Board of the Department for Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR). Two publications resulted from her studies, one in 1919 and the other in 1920. 

Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Food Investigation Board, (Great Britain), H. M. Stationery Office, York House, Kingsway, London WC2, England. 

The growing importance of this question of independence is also seen in the trend to establish independent accident investigation boards, notably in transport safely. However, the recent disasters in the Netherlands have prompted the decision to extend the remit of such a board to all types in incident and disaster, adding industrial safety, agricultural disasters such as foot and mouth, food-related concerns such as genetically manipulated crops and even civil disturbance and public safety incidents. 

US Department of Health and Human Services. Food and Drug Administration. Guidance for institutional review boards and clinical investigators, 1998 update. http //www.fda.gov/oc/ohrt/irbs/faqs.html... 

Weapons, Lieutenant General Taylor reported Furthermore, the review mechanisms applied to Edgewood have been tightened over the last two years so that protocols are reviewed by the Army Investigational Dmg Review Board and Human Subjects Research Review Board and relevant Department of Defense and Food and Dmg Administration regulations are followed. ... 

The Food and Drug Administration relies on data that sponsors submit to decide whether a drug should be approved. To protect the rights and welfare of people in clinical trials, and to verily the quality and integrity of data submitted, the FDA s Division of Scientific Investigations (DSI) conducts inspections of clinical investigators study sites. DSI also reviews the records of institutional review boards to be sure they are fulfilling their role in patient protection. 

Substances linked with producing odour and taint include short chain aldehydes. In paper and board, these are considered to derive from the degradation of lipids. Pentanal, hexanal, heptanal and nonanal were shown to be volatilised from paper and board materials heated at 60 to 100 °C (Wenzl and Lankmayr, 2002). Other substances were also detected in the headspace above the test samples but were not identified. Whilst transfer to foods was not investigated in these studies, the fact that they were shown... 

Within an investigation to develop rapid test methods to determine the migration from paper and board into food ° the migration of dibutyl phthalate, diisobutyl phthalate and DIPN from a corrugated board intended for use for... 

Food and Drug Administration Information Sheets. Guidance for Institutional Review Boards and Clinical Investigators 1998 Update. Available at http // www.fda.gov/oc/oha/IRB/toc.html (accessed March 2, 2001). 

This inspection process has recently been augmented with the establishment of an Office of the Inspector General (OIG) which reports at the level of the Secretary, not the FDA Commissioner. One of the first announced targets of the OIG, selected from the entire realm of foods and dmgs that FDA regulates, is clinical trials. In particular, the OIG is actively investigating informed consent documents, and also has notified institutional review boards (the US equivalent of the ethics committee) that they are in for close scmtiny. 

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