We use cookies to customise content for your subscription and for analytics.
If you continue to browse Lexology, we will assume that you are happy to receive all our cookies. For further information please read our Cookie Policy.
Lexology logo






  Request new password

Search results

Order by most recent / most popular / relevance

Results: 1-10 of 117

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

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

Issues narrowed in Texas bellwether GM rice contamination cases

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

A multidistrict litigation (MDL) court in Missouri has issued a number of rulings on motions for summary judgment and to exclude or limit expert testimony in the bellwether cases involving Texas rice farmers who allege that contamination of the U.S. rice supply with genetically modified (GM) rice caused a precipitous decline in prices for their crops on world markets

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

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

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

Nitrosamines targeted under potential EPA regulatory paradigm

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

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reportedly considering addressing toxins in drinking water by regulating them in groups, rather than continuing to address them contaminant-by-contaminant, and has identified nitrosamines as one of the first groups that could be subject to the new paradigm

Current Search

Suggested Facets

Author

Jurisdiction

Workarea

© Copyright 2006-2013 Globe Business Publishing Ltd | Cookies | Disclaimer | Privacy policy