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U.s. legal commentators consider whether justice is served by putting experts together in a “hot tub”
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- Australia, USA
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- September 16 2010
As courts around the world continue to grapple with the complex technical and scientific issues raised in toxic tort and product liability lawsuits, some U.S. commentators have recently looked to Australia where the “concurrent evidence procedure,” also known as “hot tubbing,” may provide a cost-effective and efficient way for factfinders to sort through the challenging expert witness battles that often confront them
Australia and New Zealand to form joint drug, medical-device regulatory agency
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- Australia, New Zealand
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- 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
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.”
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 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
CPSC enters MOU with Australia
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- Australia, USA
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- January 20 2011
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to help reduce the risks of injuries and fatalities associated with consumer products common in the United States and Australia
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”
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
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