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FDA issues industry guidance on boil-water advisories

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2010

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued industry guidance to advise food manufacturers on appropriate protocol for dealing with a boil-water advisory

EPA supports draft EIS in GE alfalfa dustup

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 19 2010

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has submitted comments to USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) indicating that it “does not object” to APHIS’s draft environmental impact statement (EIS) on genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa, prepared by court order after a successful court challenge to USDA’s decision to deregulate the bioengineered seed

U.N. members vote to continue trade in bluefin tuna

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • March 19 2010

The United Nations (U.N.) has reportedly balked at a proposal to ban the international trade of Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna, an endangered species prized by sushi aficionados

GM maize prohibited by court order in Brazil

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Brazil
  • -
  • July 30 2010

A judge from the Curitiba Environment Court in Brazil has reportedly prohibited Bayer from marketing Liberty Link maize, a crop genetically modified (GM) to be herbicide-resistant, anywhere in the country

USDA survey generates buzz on honeybee health

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 26 2010

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Bee Research Laboratory has released the preliminary results of a survey estimating that honeybee colony losses nationwide “were approximately 29 percent from all causes from September 2008 to April 2009,” touching off speculation about the fate of the ubiquitous pollinator

Researchers find BPA in cash register receipt paper

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 30 2010

Two recently released studies have purportedly found high concentrations of bisphenol A (BPA) in the thermal paper used by many retailers to print cash register receipts

APHIS announces biennial review and reorganization of select agent and toxin list

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 30 2010

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking under the Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002, soliciting feedback on the list of select agents and toxins that could pose “a severe threat to animal or plant health, or to animal or plant products.”

Prenatal DDE exposure allegedly linked to accelerated growth

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2010

A recent study reportedly claims that prenatal exposure to the pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) and its breakdown product dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) is associated with accelerated growth and elevated BMI in infants born to normal-weight mothers

Fungal-viral combination eyed in colony collapse disorder

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2010

A recent study has homed in on a possible explanation for colony collapse disorder (CCD), a mysterious ailment behind the destruction of honeybee hives worldwide

Symposium to address effects of environmental toxins on children

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2010

The Children's Environmental Health Institute will conduct its "Sixth Biennial Scientific Symposium" on October 21-22, 2010, in Houston, Texas; the focus this year is "Prenatal & Early Life Exposures: How Environmental Toxins Affect the Course of Childhood