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Prop. 65: lawsuit targets fish oil supplements containing PCBs

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 12 2010

Environmental and public health groups have sued eight manufacturers and retailers of fish oil supplements sold in California under the state Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Prop. 65) alleging that the fish oil supplements contain high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) and require warning labels

All things legislative and regulatory

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 18 2010

During a March 9, 2010, hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, and Environmental Health, several chemical industry executives testified that they favored reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) amid growing public awareness about exposure to chemicals through products and environmental emissions

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

Procedural missteps doom trade association challenge to EPA rule ending domestic pesticide tolerances

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

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld, in part, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) denial of objections filed to its final rule revoking all residues of the pesticide carbofuran permitted on or in raw and processed foods

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

Canadian firm seeks approval for biotech apple that resists browning

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 10 2010

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has reportedly been asked by a Canadian biotechnology company to approve its genetically modified (GM) apple, which resists browning after it is sliced

Study purportedly links diacetyl to bronchiolitis obliterans

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 17 2010

A recent study has proposed a model linking the butter flavoring known as diacetyl to bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome, a lung disease diagnosed in microwave popcorn plant workers

ASTM forms subcommittee to address consumer goods containing nanoparticles

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 15 2010

ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials, has announced formation of a subcommittee to develop standards for nanoparticle-enabled consumer products, such as goods that contain nanoscale silver

FTC proposes revisions to “green” marketing guidelines

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 15 2010

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has proposed revisions to its environmental marketing guidelines that would require companies to provide specific information regarding claims about the "green" benefits of a product

Consumers taking new shots at product manufacturers

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 29 2010

With an increasing number of companies touting their products as "green" or "environmentally friendly," consumers have reportedly begun challenging those claims in court complaining that they paid more for products that did not meet their expectations

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