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#ReadySteadyAntrim Foodbank Challenge

Mon, 03 May 2021 08:54:05 +0600

Antrim Foodbank is asking the Antrim community to help support people in crisis with the #ReadySteadyAntrim Foodbank Challenge.

More people are being referred to Antrim Foodbank because they don’t have enough money coming in to cover essential living costs and the food bank needs more stock to meet the demand for emergency food.

Antrim Foodbank provides three days’ emergency food to people in crisis locally. Over 90% of the food given out by food banks is donated by the public. Supermarket collections are one of the main ways that the food bank is stocked and with the food bank busier than ever, the charity is asking people to give generously:

“More and more people are being referred to Antrim Foodbank because they don’t have enough money coming in to cover essential living costs and we really need local people to give what they can.” Says Fionnuala O’Donnell, Antrim Foodbank Manager. “Rising prices, static incomes, and high unemployment are having a real impact on people on the breadline and we’re seeing more people turning to the food bank for help. We want the Antrim community to really think about what food poverty is. We are asking you to take the #ReadySteadyAntrim Foodbank Challenge: to serve up a hearty meal for a family of four using only the ingredients in one of our food parcels.”

Antrim Foodbank is part of The Trussell Trust’s UK Foodbank Network. The food bank provides a minimum of three days’ emergency food to help people through short-term crises. Each food bank also signposts people to other local agencies able to help resolve the underlying cause of the crisis.

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Antrim Foodbank is part of The Trussell Trust’s UK Foodbank Network. Between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2021, food banks in the Trussell Trust’s network distributed 2.5 million emergency food parcels to people in crisis, a 33% increase from the previous year. Almost a million of these went to children – that is almost two parcels every min. Trussell Trust foodbanks provide a minimum of three days’ emergency food to people in crisis. Over 90% of the food given out by foodbanks is donated by the public.

All those who receive emergency food are referred by frontline care professionals such as doctors, social workers, and Community Advice advisers.

Food parcels typically contain items such as tinned fruit and vegetables, tinned meat and fish, pasta, sauces, long-life juice, UHT milk, cereal, tea, rice pudding, biscuits, and soup.

Last year Antrim Foodbank collected 21 Tonnes of food from the public and provided emergency food to 2,832 people of which 1.223 were children.

1 in 5 people lives below the poverty line in the UK.

We know the main reasons why people need emergency food are:

Problems with the benefits system (delays, inadequacy, and reductions)

Challenging life experiences or ill-health

Lack of informal support

Poverty isn’t inevitable, and there is something we can all do to help build a future where no one needs a food bank.

Other reasons for referrals include delayed wages, domestic violence, sickness, unemployment, debt, benefit changes, refused short-term benefit advance, homelessness, and absence of free school meals during school holidays.

The average weekly income of households at food banks is only £50 after paying rent.

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Reiter Affiliated Companies Supports Local School Districts

Sat, 23 May 2020 08:50:00 +0600

Reiter Affiliated Companies (RAC), the largest fresh multi-berry producer, is committed to supporting the communities where they operate. The need for help is greater than ever with the unforeseen impacts of the COVID-19 crisis, and one of the ways that RAC is responding is through supporting local school districts to ensure families have access to food.

With schools closed, the incidence of food insecurity among children in the U.S. has dramatically risen and children are losing the meals they depend on. School districts are stepping up to offer free meal distribution programs; however, many schools have a great need in accessing fresh produce to support kids and families.

In response, RAC is donating fresh strawberries to two local school districts in California: Oxnard Union High School District and Ocean View School District. In Ocean View School District in particular, 83% of students are on the free meal program, which means these families are in need of support during this unprecedented time. RAC’s berries are included as part of the meal bags assembled at school and delivered to the families for the month of May.

“We’re so thankful to help provide food for hungry kids who might not otherwise get the nutrition they need,” said Eduardo Lucero, RAC’s Production Director for Ventura County. “These districts serve the children of many of our farmworkers, so we’re doing everything we can to support their efforts and help families put nutritious, balanced meals on the table.”

As a family-owned farming company, RAC is proud to do its part in ensuring children stay healthy and happy while classrooms are closed.

To learn more about Reiter Affiliated Companies, please visit: http://www.berry.net

About Reiter Affiliated Companies

Reiter Affiliated Companies (RAC) is the largest fresh multi-berry producer in the world, growing Driscoll’s proprietary varieties of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries year-round in the United States, Baja California, Central Mexico, Portugal, Morocco, Canada, and Peru.

The Reiter family began farming in the San Francisco Bay Peninsula and by the turn of the century had migrated south into Watsonville and the Santa Clara Valley. By the late 1970s, operations expanded into Southern California where the headquarters is today. The company values of Honesty, Fairness, and Respect line the corridors of every office, guiding and leading business principles and decisions. Those decisions have resulted in the organization’s position as an industry leader, adopting health and wellbeing programs, opening primary health clinics, and partnering with local organizations to improve the quality of life for the farmworker community.

Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/reiter_affiliated_companies_supports_local_school_districts/prweb17142252.htm

Informatica Honors Industry Innovators at CLAIREview Virtual Event Series Premiere

Thu, 21 May 2020 12:57:57 +0600

U.S. Food and Drug Administration?s (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Named Intelligent Disruptor of the Year

Project Management Institute, The Kroger Co., CVS Health and The American Medical Association Receive Top Honors for 2020 Informatica Innovation Awards

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 20, 2020? Informatica®, the enterprise cloud data management leader, today announced the winners of the 2020 Informatica Innovation Awards, which celebrate the industry?s data-driven disruptors that use data intelligently to deliver great business outcomes. Winners were announced at Informatica's Intelligent Data Summit, the first of a series of CLAIREview events including five virtual summits and more than 50 sessions throughout the summer. Do the Innovation Awards recognize customers? successes using Informatica?s solutions and services, and celebrate organizations that have exemplified the transformative use of data for intelligent digital disruption.

The 2020 winners and honorees are unleashing the power of data to achieve exceptional results across several key journeys representing the award categories: Business 360, Cloud Data Warehouse and Data Lake, Data Governance and Privacy, and Strategy and Vision.

Informatica chose the winners based on their vision, creativity, and leadership, and how they are driving their data-driven digital transformation, with the support of Informatica solutions. The nominations were judged on multiple criteria, including transformational impact, creativity and innovation, leverage and scope, complexity, and environmental or social impact.

The 2020 Innovation Award winners are:

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) ? Intelligent Disruptor of the Year
Project Management Institute? Intelligent Disruptor: Business 360
Kroger Co.? Intelligent Disruptor: Cloud Data Warehouse and Data Lake
CVS Health? Intelligent Disruptor: Data Governance and Privacy
The American Medical Association, supported by Infoverity? Intelligent Disruptor: Strategy and Vision

In addition, Informatica recognized these organizations as honorees:

TELUS Corporation? Business 360
Converse Inc., supported by Infoverity? Business 360
Department of Culture and Tourism? Abu Dhabi? Cloud Data Warehouse and Data Lake
Kelly Services, Inc.? Cloud Data Warehouse and Data Lake
UK Department for Education, supported by Agile Solutions? Data Governance and Privacy
UNC Health? Data Governance and Privacy
FWD Group? Strategy and Vision
Nissan North America? Strategy and Vision

?Our customers? success is the topmost priority for us at Informatica. Informatica is committed to empowering organizations to deliver exceptional business outcomes, and we are pleased to recognize our 2020 Informatica Innovation Awards winners,? said Tracey Newell, President, Global Field, and Marketing Operations, Informatica. ?Do these awards validate our customers? capabilities and dedication for what it means to disrupt intelligently, and we are honored to partner with them on their data-driven digital transformation journeys.?

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President Can Take Hydroxychloroquine, Why Cant Doctors, Nurses, and Nursing Home Patients?

Wed, 20 May 2020 07:57:24 +0600

President Trump disclosed that he was taking hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) with zinc to protect himself against COVID-19?with the approval of his physicians. Although some in the media may find this startling or concerning, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS) states that thousands and probably millions of people worldwide are doing likewise.

In the U.S., however, patients and physicians who wish to use this long-approved drug, taken safely by 100 million patients over 70 years, are running into barriers set up by the FDA, governors, and state bureaucracies. Among the reports brought to the attention of AAPS is that of a family physician who cannot obtain HCQ for his nursing-home patients.

?It is perfectly legal for physicians to prescribe an approved drug for a newly discovered indication, and very frequently done,? states AAPS. ?It is unprecedented for licensure boards to threaten pharmacists who dispense or physicians who prescribe ?off-label.??

?Basic science research from 15 years ago provides solid reason to expect that HCQ could be effective early in COVID-19, preventing hospitalization and death, and clinical experience from the U.S. and around the globe bears this out,? states AAPS. ?It is not likely to work well in seriously sick patients, the only ones who can get it under the FDA?s emergency use authorization (EUA).?

In late April, the FDA issued a new special warning about potential heart problems from the use of HCQ in COVID-19?which advises patients with other conditions to continue taking it because benefits exceed the risks.

?The benefit of potentially preventing thousands of hospitalizations and deaths vastly exceeds the risks of HCQ, which has an outstanding safety record,? states AAPS. ?And if President Trump?s doctor can prescribe it, why can?t yours??

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) has represented physicians of all specialties in all states since 1943. The AAPS motto is omnia pro aegroto , meaning everything for the patient.

Source: https://www.pressreleasepoint.com/if-president-trump-can-take-hydroxychloroquine-why-cant-doctors-nurses-and-nursing-home-patients

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes First Standalone At-Home Sample Collection Kit That Can Be Used With Certain Authorized Tests

Mon, 18 May 2020 11:59:12 +0600

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized an at-home sample collection kit that can then be sent to specified laboratories for COVID-19 diagnostic testing. Specifically, the FDA issued an emergency use Food & Drug Administration authorization (EUA) to Everlywell, Inc. for the EverlyWell COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit. Everly Well's kit is authorized to be used by individuals at home who have been screened using an online questionnaire that is reviewed by a health care provider. This allows an individual to self-collect a nasal sample at home using Everlywell?s authorized kit. The FDA has also authorized two COVID-19 diagnostic tests, performed at specific laboratories, for use with samples collected using the Everlywell COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit. These Food & Drug Administration tests have been authorized under separate, individual EUAs. Additional tests may be authorized for use with the EverlyWell at-home collection kit in the future, provided data are submitted in an EUA request that demonstrate the accuracy of each test when used with the Everlywell at-home collection kit.

?The authorization of a COVID-19 at-home collection kit that can be used with multiple tests at multiple labs not only provides increased patient access to tests, but also protects others from potential exposure,? said Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., J.D., director of the FDA?s Center for Devices and Radiological Health. ?Today?s action is also another great example of public-private partnerships in which data from a privately funded study was used by industry to support a EUA request, saving precious time as we continue our fight against this pandemic.?

Today?s EUA for the Everlywell COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit permits testing of a Food & Drug Administration sample collected from inside the patient?s nose COVID-19 test using the authorized self-collection kit that contains nasal swabs to collect a sample and a tube filled with saline to transport the sample back to a specified lab. Once patients self-swab to collect their nasal sample, they will ship the sample overnight to a specific CLIA-certified lab that is running one of the in vitro diagnostic molecular tests authorized under a separate EUA for use with the EverlyWell at-home sample collection kit. The labs authorized to test specimens collected using the EverlyWell at-home collection kit are Fulgent Therapeutics and Assurance Scientific Laboratories. Results will be returned to the patient through EverlyWell?s independent physician network and their online portal.

This announcement follows two recent EUAs for diagnostic tests that also use at-home specimen collection: one that uses a sample collected from the patient?s nose with a nasal swab and transported in saline and another that permits testing of a saliva sample collected by the patient at home . Everlywell?s EUA request leveraged data from studies supported by The Bill Press Release Service and Melinda Gates Foundation and UnitedHealth Group to demonstrate stability of specimens during shipping. The data from these studies are freely available to support other EUA requests, alleviating each test developer of the burden of recreating the same study.

The Everlywell home-collection kit is currently the only authorized COVID-19 at-home sample collection kit for use with multiple authorized COVID-19 diagnostic tests. The kit and associated tests are available by prescription only.

Today?s authorization is limited to the EverlyWell COVID-19 test for at-home collection of nasal swab specimens for analysis by COVID-19 diagnostic tests specifically authorized under separate EUAs for use with specimens collected with the EverlyWell at-home collection kit. It is important to note that this is not a general authorization for at-home collection of patient samples using other collection kits, swabs, media, or tests, or for tests fully conducted at home.

The FDA, an agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, protects the public health by assuring the safety, effectiveness, and security of human and veterinary drugs, vaccines Food & Drug Administration and other biological products for human use, and medical devices. The agency also is responsible for the safety and security of our nation?s food supply, cosmetics, dietary supplements, products that give off electronic radiation, and for regulating tobacco products.

Source: https://www.pressreleasepoint.com/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-authorizes-first-standalone-home-sample-collection-kit-can-be-used

EPA Technical Assistance to Spur Economy with Locally-Produced Foods

Sat, 16 May 2020 13:50:55 +0600

the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture ,Agricultural Marketing Service, announced technical assistance for Evansville, Ind., to help develop a multi-use food center at the site of the Tri-State Food Bank, 801 Michigan Avenue. This would boost economic opportunities for local entrepreneurs while promoting clean air, safe water, open space and healthy food choices. ?The Trump Administration is committed to helping communities develop and strengthen their local food economy by investing in opportunity zones in often under privileged communities, some of which have been hard hit by the coronavirus outbreak,? said EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. ?Support for local food initiatives can improve access to fresh foods, support farmers, grow new businesses, keep Americans healthy and improve the environment.?

?EPA is eager to help Evansville in its plans to develop a local multi-use food center,? said EPA Regional Administrator Kurt Thiede. ?The new food center would potentially help revitalize the neighborhood and provide a space for food growing and preparation, and a commercial kitchen to incubate new local food businesses.?

?The technical assistance offered by Local Foods, Local Places is great opportunity for the City to more closely examine the challenges around food insecurity that we have within our urban core and Promise Zone,? said Kelley Coures, Executive Director, City of Evansville Department of Metropolitan Development. ?The assistance can also provide resources to local food entrepreneurs who we want to establish businesses here in the City especially in our Downtown, Haynie's Corner, Franklin Street and North Main areas. These types of businesses serve as economic and social hubs within our neighborhoods that bring the entire community together.?

The Tri-State Food Bank distributes foods to food pantries in Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. To better serve the growing demand, the food bank has chosen to relocate. Evansville is requesting technical assistance to determine if the current Food Bank site is a viable option for creating a multi-use food center with indoor urban garden, raised food beds, food hub, produce gleaning center and commercial kitchen with cold storage rental space.

Evansville will get access to a team of federal, state and regional agricultural, environmental, public health, architectural and economic development experts to help devise an action plan, set goals and identify local assets that can support the local food economy and contribute revitalization downtown and in neighborhoods.

The assistance is provided through the Local Foods, Local Places program, a federal initiative that helps communities reinvest in existing neighborhoods and improve quality of life through the sustainable development of the local food economy. The effort will build upon the work of local leadership in coordinating local food production, commercial kitchen availability, farmers markets, nutrition, food entrepreneurship and downtown redevelopment.

Evansville has an Opportunity Zone like most of the 16 communities nationwide selected for this program in support of the President Trump?s Executive Order 13853.

Nearly all communities selected include Opportunity Zones, in support of President Trump?s Executive Order 13853. The assistance is provided through the Local Foods, Local Places (LFLP) program, a federal initiative that helps communities reinvest in existing neighborhoods and improve quality of life through the sustainable development of their local food economy.

EPA will be flexible on the timing of next steps for the project, as necessary, considering that many communities are still dealing with issues related to COVID-19.

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