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Universities abroad experiment with no-fee licensing to drive biotech partnerships

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Australia, Canada, European Union, United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 16 2013

Universities in Australia, Canada, Europe, and the United Kingdom have reportedly embraced a 2010 Glasgow University initiative under which companies

NPR blog highlights efforts to curb food label proliferation

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • November 2 2012

A recent post on NPR’s “The Salt” blog has highlighted a sharp increase in the number of food labels designed to signal a product’s nutritional content and environmental status, raising questions about whether “the proliferation of ‘pick me!’ logos has become somewhat overwhelming”

U.S., EU and China product-safety officials begin talks on consumer-product surveillance

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • China, European Union, USA
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  • July 19 2012

During their third biennial consumer product safety trilateral summit, product-safety officials from the United States, European Union (EU) and China laid the foundation for strengthening cooperation and continued an exchange of “opinions and information concerning seamless surveillance of consumer products, consumer product tracking and traceability, as well as consumer product safety information dissemination.”

U.S., EU announce organic trade partnership

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • February 17 2012

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has announced a “historic new partnership” with the European Union that recognizes its organic standards as essentially equivalent to those administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA

EU Court of Justice rules U.S. Airlines must be included in European Emissions Trading System

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • January 20 2012

The Court of Justice of the European Union (EU ) has ruled that U.S. airlines are included in the EU ’s Emissions Trading System (ETS

Food marketing to youth discussed in Brussels

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • April 8 2011

According to public health lawyer and activist Michele Simon, who recently attended a meeting in Brussels "to address the problem of cross-border marketing of unhealthy food to children," the same types of issues confronting public health advocates in the United States confront their counterparts in Europe

Joint public meeting to focus on bridging nanotechnology research

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • February 24 2011

The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office has announced that it will spearhead a public meeting to focus on "environmental health and safety questions for nanomaterials and nanotechnology-enabled products" and to "encourage joint US-EU programs of work that would leverage resources."

News bytes

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • December 16 2010

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) adopts two draft guidelines as part of the regulatory approval process for certain biosimilar medicinal products

Environment Canada declares BPA a toxic substance

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Canada, European Union, USA
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  • October 22 2010

Environment Canada has declared bisphenol A (BPA) a toxic substance

American Farm Bureau censures EU for GM crop moratorium

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • July 30 2010

The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFB) has issued a policy statement urging the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to “initiate a retaliation process” against the European Union over its de facto moratorium on genetically modified (GM) crops