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FDA issues industry guidance on boil-water advisories

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2010

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued industry guidance to advise food manufacturers on appropriate protocol for dealing with a boil-water advisory

Court refuses to stop current planting of GE sugar beets

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 19 2010

A federal court in California has denied a request for preliminary injunction to halt the cultivation of genetically engineered (GE) sugar beets while the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) completes its court-ordered environmental impact statement (EIS) for the crop under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA

Prenatal DDE exposure allegedly linked to accelerated growth

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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

Symposium to address effects of environmental toxins on children

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2010

The Children's Environmental Health Institute will conduct its "Sixth Biennial Scientific Symposium" on October 21-22, 2010, in Houston, Texas; the focus this year is "Prenatal & Early Life Exposures: How Environmental Toxins Affect the Course of Childhood

Study purportedly links diacetyl to bronchiolitis obliterans

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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

BPA linked to lobster “shell disease”

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 13 2010

A molecular biologist has allegedly found that waterborne chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA) are a contributing factor to lobster shell disease, a bacterial infection linked to population die-offs in the Long Island Sound

EPA declares saccharin no longer a potential human carcinogen

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 17 2010

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a final rule announcing that it has removed saccharin from its lists of hazardous substances, wastes and constituents because it “is no longer considered a potential hazard to human health.”

Canada to place BPA on list of toxic substances

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • August 20 2010

Environment Canada has reportedly announced its intention to placebisphenol A (BPA) on the country's list of toxic substances within eight to10 weeks, thus ending a regulatory process started in April 2008 when thegovernment first banned polycarbonate baby bottles

FSA investigates meat from offspring of cloned cow

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • August 20 2010

The U.K. Food Standards Agency (FSA) has announced that meat from a cloned cow’s offspring has evidently entered the food supply, sparking concerns about the country’s livestock registration and tracking requirements

NRDC calls on federal agencies to ramp up seafood safety testing in Gulf

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • 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