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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 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
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
EC Research Centre issues report on defining “nanomaterial”
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- European Union, USA
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- July 2 2010
The European Commission's (EC's) Joint Research Centre has published a report that explores various definitions for the term "nanomaterial" currently in use around the world in an effort to devise a single definition that could make nanotechnology amenable to regulation
