Lab-Developed Tests under scrutiny

HCHO Emissions Debate Invites Scrutiny of Lab Tests, Economics

F or longevity, few issues in the forest products industry rival the formaldehyde (HCHO) debate. The issue came to the fore in the mid-1970s as increased use of HCHO-emitting board products in more tightly constructed homes led to numerous complaints. As a result. U.S. Housing and Urban Development Agency (HUD) ruled in 1985 that the HCHO level of air in mobile homes would be limited to 0.4 par...

Under Scrutiny

Folic acid under scrutiny

A consideration of the absorption and metabolism of folic acid in human subjects is timely, owing to the recent recommendation by the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition that a mandatory folic acid fortification programme be implemented in the UK. In this issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Wright et al. take us through the processes of absorption and metabolism of...

ContSys under Ontological Scrutiny

EN ISO 13940, commonly known as ContSys, is an international standard that provides a system of concepts to support continuity of care and semantic interoperability of information systems. ContSys provides domain-specific terms, definitions and relationships, but was not developed as an ontology. Nevertheless, we think that it might benefit from the application of more formal, ontological analy...

Folic acid under scrutiny.

A consideration of the absorption and metabolism of folic acid in human subjects is timely, owing to the recent recommendation by the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition that a mandatory folic acid fortification programme be implemented in the UK. In this issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Wright et al. take us through the processes of absorption and metabolism of...