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Australian health organizations campaign against sugary drinks

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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January 25 2013

Cancer Council, Diabetes Australia and the National Heart Foundation of Australia have issued recommendations about the sale and availability of

OPC releases report on self-regulatory marketing in Australia

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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November 16 2012

The Obesity Policy Coalition (OPC) has sent a report to Australian officials on the country’s current self-regulatory system for food marketing, which OPC has described as “seriously flawed”

Australian agency calls for nanotubes to be classified as hazardous

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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November 2 2012

Safe Work Australia, a government agency lacking regulatory authority, has recommended that multi-walled and single-walled carbon nanotubes be classified as hazardous unless they can be shown, on a case-by-case basis with toxicological or other data, to merit a different classification

Studies claim food and beverage youth marketing in Australia fails ad regs

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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October 19 2012

Researchers with the New South Wales Cancer Council and University of Adelaide have assessed food and beverage TV advertisements broadcast in five major Australian cities during children’s programming from September 1 to October 31, 2010, and found a total of 951 breaches of both mandatory and voluntary regulations

Will plain cigarette packs in Australia lead to similar food-packaging restrictions?

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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August 17 2012

In the wake of an Australian High Court ruling validating regulations requiring cigarettes to be sold in plain packages, some commentators are speculating whether other products, such as alcoholic beverages and fast food, will be subject to the same types of restrictions

Researchers allegedly link new poultry viruses to live-attenuated vaccines

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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July 20 2012

University of Melbourne researchers have reportedly demonstrated that viruses from two live-attenuated poultry vaccines have combined in the field to produce new infectious viruses “responsible for widespread disease in Australian commercial poultry flocks.”

Australian court finds KFC liable for injury caused by Salmonella-tainted chicken

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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May 4 2012

An Australian court has reportedly awarded $8 million to the family of a girl who allegedly ate a Salmonella-contaminated chicken product from a KFC restaurant and became critically ill with organ system failures, septic shock, severe brain injury, and spastic quadriplegia

Australia and New Zealand to form joint drug, medical-device regulatory agency

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia, New Zealand
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June 30 2011

The Australian and New Zealand governments have reportedly developed a five-year plan to create a joint agency that will regulate medicines, medical devices and new medical interventions, such as cellular therapy

Australian senators introduce legislation on GM labeling

Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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Australia
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November 19 2010

According to a news source, senators representing the Independent and Australian Greens parties have introduced legislation that would require food products to be labeled if they contain genetically modified (GM) material, regardless of amount or how it came to be incorporated in the product