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Posts By: Gustavo Reyes

FDA Launches New Interactive Tool for Total Diet Study Results

On January 27, 2026, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a new interactive tool, the Total Diet Study Interface (TDSi), that makes it easier to explore and download results from the agency’s long-running Total Diet Study. Along with the launch of TDSi, FDA also shared the latest round of data from fiscal years 2021 and 2022, expanding the publicly available TDS results to cover…

Why Counts Cannot be Used for Comparisons. Why the Denominator Matters. 

When looking at data, and data summaries, we tend to focus on count data. There were three (3) positive tests. There were ten (10) customer complaints. There were two (2) incidents last month. Counts feel concrete, intuitive and easy to compare, so they often become the first, and sometimes the only, numbers we look at.  But counts alone rarely tell the full story…  A count tells…