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IASO urges tougher standards for food marketing to children

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Global
  • -
  • July 23 2010

The International Association for the Study of Obesity (IASO) has released a July 2010 report on the PolMark Project, a survey commissioned by the European Union to examine how member states regulate food and beverage marketing to children

ISO nanotech standard addresses inhalation toxicity testing

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • January 28 2011

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has finalized a new standard that apparently establishes parameters for monitoring the concentration, size and size-distribution of nanoscale particles in an inhalation chamber as part of an effort to assess their potential toxicity

WHO to consider restrictions on marketing food to youth in 2011

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • January 28 2011

According to a press report, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that heads of state convening at the United Nations (U.N.), September 19-20, 2011, will use the U.N. General Assembly meeting to discuss restrictions on advertising foods of poor nutritional quality to children

WTO panel issues preliminary ruling against COOL

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • June 17 2011

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has reportedly issued a preliminary ruling that U.S. country-of-origin labeling (COOL) laws violate the organization’s Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade

WCRFAICR report links bowel cancer risk to meaty diet

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • May 27 2011

The World Cancer Research FundAmerican Institute for Cancer Research (WCRFAICR) has issued a colorectal cancer report allegedly concluding "that red and processed meat increase risk of the disease."

Regulators continue to address radiation concerns

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Global, Japan, USA
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  • March 25 2011

The World Health Organization (WHO), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have continued to address public concerns about food produced in Japan, where a recent earthquake and tsunami compromised the Fukushima prefecture’s nuclear power plant, releasing radiation into the atmosphere

Codex meeting to target draft U.S. positions on food standards

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Global, USA
  • -
  • May 25 2012

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced a June 5, 2012, public meeting in Washington, D.C., to provide information and receive comments on draft U.S positions to be discussed at the 35th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission on July 2-7 in Rome, Italy

Study claims link between phthalate exposure and diabetes in the elderly

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
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  • Global
  • -
  • April 20 2012

A recent study from Sweden’s Uppsala University claims that exposure to chemicals known as phthalates, which are found in soaps, lotions, plastics, and toys, may contribute to the development of diabetes in the elderly

Study outlines challenges for nanotechnology use in foods and agriculture

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Global
  • -
  • March 9 2012

Part II of the American Bar Association’s (ABA’s) Nanotechnology Project, this recently released book comprehensively considers, by product category, how the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviews nanotechnology-based products

Chem trust investigates chemical causes of obesity

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Global, United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 23 2012

The U.K.-based Chemicals, Health and Environment Monitoring (CHEM) Trust has issued a March 2012 report claiming that recent studies have linked “hormone disrupting chemicals in food and consumer products” to obesity and Type 2 diabetes in humans