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Australian health organizations campaign against sugary drinks

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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January 25 2013

Cancer Council, Diabetes Australia and the National Heart Foundation of Australia have issued recommendations about the sale and availability of

Will plain cigarette packs in Australia lead to similar food-packaging restrictions?

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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August 17 2012

In the wake of an Australian High Court ruling validating regulations requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packages, some commentators are speculating whether other products, such as alcoholic beverages and fast food, will be subject to the same types of restrictions

Australian agency calls for nanotubes to be classified as hazardous

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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November 2 2012

Safe Work Australia, a government agency lacking regulatory authority, has recommended that multi-walled and single-walled carbon nanotubes be classified as hazardous unless they can be shown, on a case-by-case basis with toxicological or other data, to merit a different classification

Cancer Council Australia releases position statement on alcohol consumption

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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May 6 2011

The Cancer Council Australia (CCA) Alcohol Working Group has published a position statement in the May 2011 Medical Journal of Australia, claiming that alcohol use causes cancer and that any level of consumption "increases the risk of developing an alcohol-related cancer

Extremely obese children removed from parents’ care in Australia

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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July 20 2012

According to news sources, human-services authorities in Victoria have sought protection for extremely obese children on at least two occasions in 2012, arguing to children’s court magistrates that they would be unable to lose weight in their parents’ care

Australian agency fines olive oil maker over “extra virgin” claims

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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May 25 2012

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has fined a Kensington, South Australia, olive oil manufacturer a total of A$13,200 for marketing its products as “extra virgin” even though they purportedly did not meet international grade standards

Australian senators introduce legislation on GM labeling

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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November 19 2010

According to a news source, senators representing the Independent and Australian Greens parties have introduced legislation that would require food products to be labeled if they contain genetically modified (GM) material, regardless of amount or how it came to be incorporated in the product

Australian researchers advocate mandatory sodium limits for processed foods

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia, USA
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November 5 2010

Mandatory sodium limits for processed foods could be 20 times more effective than voluntary reduction measures

Researchers allegedly link new poultry viruses to live-attenuated vaccines

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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July 20 2012

University of Melbourne researchers have reportedly demonstrated that viruses from two live-attenuated poultry vaccines have combined in the field to produce new infectious viruses “responsible for widespread disease in Australian commercial poultry flocks.”

Rudd Center study examines obesity-related health messaging

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia, United Kingdom, USA
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September 14 2012

Researchers with Yale University’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity have published a study purportedly assessing the effectiveness of “major obesity public health campaigns from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.”