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Researchers find BPA in cash register receipt paper
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- 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
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- USA
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- 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
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- USA
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- 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
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- USA
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- 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
Procedural missteps doom trade association challenge to EPA rule ending domestic pesticide tolerances
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- 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
Nitrosamines targeted under potential EPA regulatory paradigm
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- 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
Court vacates APHIS deregulation of GM sugar beets; no new planting allowed for now
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- August 20 2010
A federal court in California has decided to stop all new planting of genetically modified (GM) sugar beets in light of its September 2009 ruling that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) violated environmental law when it deregulated the crop without conducting an appropriate environmental assessment
NRDC calls on federal agencies to ramp up seafood safety testing in Gulf
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- August 20 2010
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and nearly two dozen Gulf Coast organizations have requested that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) "strengthen the current protocols and data relied on to determine whether seafood is safe for consumption and when to re-open areas for fishing" after the massive oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico
Study purportedly links diacetyl to bronchiolitis obliterans
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- 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
Researchers allege BPA linked to increased levels of testosterone, other health effects
- Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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- USA
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- August 27 2010
Two recent studies have linked bisphenol A (BPA) to hormonal changes in men and genetic changes in female mice
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- Jurisdiction - USA
- Workarea - Environment
- Workarea - Product Liability
- Author - Madeleine McDonough
- Author - Mark Anstoetter