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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.”

Studies claim food and beverage youth marketing in Australia fails ad regs

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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October 19 2012

Researchers with the New South Wales Cancer Council and University of Adelaide have assessed food and beverage TV advertisements broadcast in five major Australian cities during children’s programming from September 1 to October 31, 2010, and found a total of 951 breaches of both mandatory and voluntary regulations

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 Medical Association tackles alcohol marketing

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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September 21 2012

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) has released a 60-page report in conjunction with its National Summit on Alcohol Marketing to Young People that accuses industry of targeting children with new media tactics as well as alcohol-flavored food and cosmetic products

Australian health experts urge “junk food” regulations

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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November 2 2012

Two health experts who recently appeared on Australia’s ABC Lateline have reportedly called for additional government regulation to help combat rising obesity levels

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

Australian court finds KFC liable for injury caused by Salmonella-tainted chicken

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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May 4 2012

An Australian court has reportedly awarded $8 million to the family of a girl who allegedly ate a Salmonella-contaminated chicken product from a KFC restaurant and became critically ill with organ system failures, septic shock, severe brain injury, and spastic quadriplegia

OPC releases report on self-regulatory marketing in Australia

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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November 16 2012

The Obesity Policy Coalition (OPC) has sent a report to Australian officials on the country’s current self-regulatory system for food marketing, which OPC has described as “seriously flawed”