The short version
Nouri is an independent iOS app and website built and operated by Aariz Rasheed. It is not a hospital, a clinic, a medical organisation, or a public-health agency, and it is not affiliated with any of the agencies whose guidance it cites.
The guidance on this site is compiled from named public-health sources and linked back to them. It is not written or reviewed by a licensed clinician, midwife, or registered dietitian, and no clinician endorsement is claimed anywhere on this site. If you see a claim here that is not tied to a named source, treat that as a mistake worth reporting.
Why say that so bluntly?
Plenty of pregnancy sites imply medical review without ever naming a reviewer. That is the thing worth avoiding. A pregnant reader deciding whether to worry about last night's dinner deserves to know whether she is reading a clinician's judgment or a careful summary of official guidance. This site is the second one.
The practical consequence: Nouri is useful for finding what official guidance says, organising what you ate and when, and preparing a question for someone qualified to answer it. It is not useful as a substitute for that person.
Where the guidance comes from
Every food-safety, recall, mercury, caffeine, storage, and symptom claim on this site is meant to trace back to a primary source. The ones used most often are:
- United States: CDC, FDA, USDA FSIS, and FoodSafety.gov for food-safety and recall guidance, and ACOG for pregnancy clinical guidance.
- United Kingdom: NHS and the Food Standards Agency, which differ from U.S. guidance on several foods including eggs and some soft cheeses.
- Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland: Health Canada, Food Standards Australia New Zealand, the NSW Food Authority, and the HSE where the local advice is materially different.
The full source map, including which source answers which kind of question, is on the sources and safety boundaries page.
How pages are kept current
Recall and outbreak content ages faster than anything else here, so it gets checked most often. Outbreak status is read from the CDC and FDA investigation pages rather than from news coverage, and each page records the date its sources were last checked.
When an outbreak closes, the page says so and says what that does and does not mean for the reader. When guidance differs by country, both versions are given rather than averaged into one answer.
What Nouri will not do
- Tell you a specific food was safe for your specific pregnancy.
- Tell you a symptom is harmless.
- Decide whether a package matches a recall.
- Estimate your risk after an exposure.
- Claim medical review, credentials, or awards it does not have.
If you have symptoms, or an official notice tells you to get medical advice, contact your doctor, midwife, maternity service, urgent care, or local emergency service. Nothing on this site should delay that.
Corrections
If a source has moved, a claim reads as stronger than the source supports, or something is simply wrong, email aarizrasheed2345@gmail.com. Safety-related corrections are looked at first. Naming the page and the line makes it much faster to fix.
How money works here, since it affects trust: Nouri makes money from paid subscriptions in the iOS app. This site carries no advertising, no sponsored placements, and no affiliate links, so no food brand or retailer pays to appear in or disappear from this guidance.