Category: Issue 446
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McDonough to Present on Preemption at ACI’s FDA & USDA Compliance Boot Camp
Shook, Hardy & Bacon Agribusiness & Food Safety Practice Co-Chair Madeleine McDonough will participate in the American Conference Institute’s (ACI’s) “FDA & USDA Compliance Boot Camp: An In-Depth and Comprehensive Course on Regulatory Requirements for the Food and Beverage Industry,” scheduled for October 3-4, 2012, in Chicago. Joining a faculty of expert in-house counsel, regulatory officials and…
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BPA Exposure Allegedly Leads to Inter-Species Mating in Shiner Fish
A recent study has reportedly claimed that two species of shiner fish exposed to bisphenol A (BPA) were more likely to mate in mixed-species pairings. Jessica Ward and Michael Blum, “Exposure to an environmental estrogen breaks down sexual isolation between native and invasive species,” Evolutionary Applications, July 2012. After collecting specimens from rivers throughout Georgia,…
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Collaborating with Industry to Address Obesity Is a Mistake, Says Kelly Brownell
Yale University Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity’s Kelly Brownell has provided a “Perspective” article for PLoS Medicine’s ongoing series about “Big Food.” Titled “Thinking Forward: The Quicksand of Appeasing the Food Industry,” the July 3, 2012, article contends that public-health efforts to collaborate with the food industry to address obesity are a mistake.…
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Stephanie Strom, “Has ‘Organic’ Been Oversized?,” The New York Times, July 7, 2012
“The fact is, organic food has become a wildly lucrative business for Big Food and a premium-price-means-premium-profit section of the grocery store,” writes Times correspondent Stephanie Strom in this July 7, 2012, article about perceived conflicts of interest on the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). According to Strom, who tracks the consolidation of organic brands…
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WTO Rejects U.S. Appeal in COOL Dispute
The World Trade Organization Appellate Body has partially rejected the U.S. Office of the Trade Representative’s (USTR’s) appeal in a dispute with Canada and Mexico over “country of origin” labeling (COOL) for beef and pork products. After WTO’s Dispute Settlement Panel ruled in November 2011 that specific provisions of the U.S. COOL program provided less…
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Andrew Torrance, “Planted Obsolescence: Synagriculture and the Law,” Idaho L. Rev., 2012
University of Kansas School of Law Professor Andrew Torrance discusses in this article the promises of synthetic biology, which takes genetic engineering (GE) one step further by designing organisms from scratch, and its potential perils. Dubbed “synagriculture,” the new technology is apparently being developed by those dedicated to sharing, spreading and pooling innovative biotechnologies and…
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EU General Court Finds Scotch Maker’s “Royal Shakespeare” Trademark Invalid
The European Union (EU) General Court has affirmed a ruling of the Board of Appeal of the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM) and dismissed the application of a beverage company to register “Royal Shakespeare” as a word mark for its scotch whiskey. Jackson Int’l Trading Co. Kurt D.…
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Antibiotic Drug Residues in Meat Lead to Consent Decree with DOJ
A federal court in Wisconsin has reportedly approved a consent decree between the U.S. government a Wisconsin livestock operation that allegedly violated federal drug laws by failing to maintain adequate animal treatment records, using new animal drugs illegally and failing to adequately distinguish between medicated and non-medicated animals for sale for use as human food.…