Year XVI- N.10/2000

 

 

 

 

 

L'Informatore farmaceutico 2001

OEMF 4voll + aggiornamenti L.496.000

Now in its 61st edition, this publication, which is expected to appear in February next year, is unique in terms of completeness of information and represents a vital tool for all those who operate in the vast and complex pharmaceutical industry: chemists, distributors, pharmaceutical companies....as well as doctors. This work does in fact contain a mine of information, including medicine, homeopathy, special lists; there is also a pocket handbook for quick and easy reference. The basic publication is also completed by monthly updates (with all the latest developments, prices, revocations and suspensions, reclassifications, etc.) with details of the health market, legislation and major events. It can be safely said in other words that nothing happens in the pharmaceutical field without the “Informatore”...informing us. For further details, please call the following number: 02/33210310.

I controlli ispettivi nel settore alimentare

Gregorio Gilardi, Aleandro D’Angeli, Bruno Gilardi, Pasquale Iodice EPC Libri pp. 424

The subject covered in this book is strictly related to everyday life and deals with the activity carried out by inspection bodies within the food segment to reduce the risks for consumers’ health.

This publication highlights the fact that the exceptional scientific and technologic advances, which have also taken place in the ever broadening scenario of the area subject to sanitary controls, has involved compulsory changes aimed at privileging action in the areas of prevention, sanitary education, consultancy, training and information, rather than the resort to repressive action.

This new philosophy has led to a new working methodology, enabling an integration of the requirements of the parties subject to controls on one side and the compulsory official inspection activity on the other. After an accurate picture of the general regulations and of the legal system governing the field, provided in the first section, you then find a quick but complete roundup of all the aspects related to foodstuffs and their preservation, the poisonings and toxic infections they may cause, and epidemiological surveys.

The third section is devoted to the field of official controls, starting with the problems related to the plurality of the bodies entrusted with the control functions, continuing with the need for their coordination, and going through the various inspection stages: document examination, requirements for premises and equipment, staff control, sample collection and analyses with a final description of their purposes.

The text closes with a picture of the provisions, penalties and company defensive warranties, and with a normative appendix; the theme which inspires the work being the necessity for safety requirements, as the recent cases of genetically modified foodstuffs or of mad cow disease have emphasized.