The Fireflower Adverse Reaction RegistryThe Fireflower Adverse Reaction Registry (FARR) has been created to allow any person to report any reaction to any prescription or non-prescription drug, vaccine, herbal medicine, natural health product, mineral, vitamin, food or food supplement. The FARR is dedicated to providing the collection and analysis of biomedical data for use by health research institutes. Information is collected only for biomedical research purposes and does not include personal contact information that could ever be seen by a third party. The data collected includes all the information required by many national governments (European, Australasian, North American) but also includes collateral factors which may have predisposed a person to their specific alleged adverse reaction. This kind of collateral information is important to manufacturers of the products concerned because they need to know the types of people who suffer the adverse reactions, and any temporary factors that may have promoted the reaction. In this way manufacturers can keep otherwise useful drugs on the market by restricting their use from people who may have certain contra-indicated characteristics, or who have temporarily put themselves at risk in some specified way. The only way that government agencies, and manufacturers of medicinal and other health care products, can know about the effectiveness of such products, is if the public tells them in an effective way. FRR provides such a way. People who subscribe to the Fireflower PPD survey automatically receive the questions from the FARR, where the two systems are integrated. |