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Australian health organizations campaign against sugary drinks

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • January 25 2013

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

Australian researchers advocate mandatory sodium limits for processed foods

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Australia, USA
  • -
  • November 5 2010

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

Australian senators introduce legislation on GM labeling

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • 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

Cancer Council Australia releases position statement on alcohol consumption

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • 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

Australia and New Zealand to form joint drug, medical-device regulatory agency

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Australia, New Zealand
  • -
  • June 30 2011

The Australian and New Zealand governments have reportedly developed a five-year plan to create a joint agency that will regulate medicines, medical devices and new medical interventions, such as cellular therapy

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

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • 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

Extremely obese children removed from parents’ care in Australia

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • 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

Researchers allegedly link new poultry viruses to live-attenuated vaccines

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • 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.”

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

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • 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

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

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • 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

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