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U.S. Drug Manufacturers Beware: Application of the PRC Antibribery Law to Drug Marketing and Promotional Practices in China
(2002)China’s ongoing economic growth and tremendous market potentials have presented many opportunities for American pharmaceutical manufacturers. According to a report issued by the Pharmaceutical Research ... -
Uncapping the Bottle: A Look Inside the History, Industry, and Regulation of Bottled Water in the United States
(2006)Since the late twentieth century, the bottled water industry in the United States has been exploding, and more Americans have been choosing bottled water as their preferred beverage. Although much has been written about ... -
A Unified System for Ensuring Drug Safety
(2002)There are currently two systems in the United States to ensure the safety of pharmaceutical products: tort and regulation. The shared goal of tort law and Food and Drug Administrative (“FDAâ€) ... -
United States - Thailand Free Trade Agreement Negotiations: Potential Effects on Pharmaceutical Patent Protection in Thailand
(2006)Benefits and losses that a country would get from entering into a free trade agreement are often controversial and rise to national debate. This is especially apparent for negotiations between developed and developing ... -
Untangling the Vioxx-Celebrex Controversy: A Story about Responsibility
(2005)While the withdrawal of prescription drugs is not a new concept, the Vioxx and Celebrex controversy has put a new spin on the issue of withdrawal. Vioxx and Celebrex belong to the same class of drugs and both were linked ... -
USDA and FDA Regulations: "The Attack of the Killer Tomato"
(1996)This paper will address the U.S. response to the present and future use of the genetic alteration of food through the analysis of the pioneer food product-- the Flavr-Savr tomato-- which was the first genetically altered ... -
The Use and Misuse of OxyContin
(2002)This paper examines the phenomenon of OxyContin abuse over the past two years. The prescription painkiller has been hailed as both a wonder drug and a killer. Both descriptions are accurate. The trouble is not with the ... -
Use of Blending as a Method to Bring Filth Content Within Defect Action Levels: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
(1995)This paper begins with a brief discussion, for illustrative purposes, of the evolution of regulations for reconditioning in the food salvage industry, and present requirements for reconditioning adulterated food. It then ... -
THE VACCINE ADDITIVE THIMEROSAL: CAUSATION AND COMPENSATION FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM
(2003). This Paper explores the complex thimerosal debate. Part II briefly sets out the history of vaccine manufacturers in the last half of the twentieth century culminating with the passage of the Vaccine Act; it also posits ... -
Vaccines and The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
(2000)The federal government plays a leading role in vaccination by funding vaccine administration and by integrating the immunization efforts of the public and private sectors on national, state and local levels. Congress ... -
Waiting for Mifepristone
(2000)Physically, it is just a little white pill. But oh, what it could do: take abortion out of easily-identified clinics and disburse it to hospitals and doctor's offices, making what is so often called a "a private choice" ... -
Waiting to Exhale: Medical Marijuana and Its Uncertain Future
(1995)Therapeutic use of marijuana is a political, medical and moral issue that has provoked controversy throughout this century. On one side of the debate is the governments desire to prevent drug abuse and to make certain that ... -
WESTERN STATES MEDICAL AND OTHER PROBLEMS WITH THE DOCTRINE CONCERNING FDA REGULATION OF COMMERCIAL SPEECH
(2003)This paper will attempt to explain the current state of how commercial speech doctrine affects FDA regulation by looking closely to a recently decided case: Thompson v. Western States Medical. This case will then be used ... -
What About the Children? - FDA's Response to Pediatric Drug Testing
(2003)The Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has played a critical role in the protection of human subjects in research. Most recently, FDA enacted an interim final rule regarding protection of children in clinical ... -
What Can Your Food Do For You? (And Should FDA Let It?): An Overview of the Regulatory Regime (or Lack Thereof) Surrounding Functional Foods
(2006)Foods that provide a health benefit beyond basic nutrition, otherwise known as “functional foods,†may hold the key to better short- and long-term health for many Americans. In recent years, ... -
What is Soft Paternalism, and the Best it has to Offer in the Battle to Quit Smoking
(2006)The behavioral law and economics concept of “soft paternalism†offers a way to satisfy both the American predilection to remain skeptical of paternalistic government regulation and the ... -
What the FDA Doesn't Want You to Hear: Regulation of Tobacco Advertising and Disease-Specific Health Claims (A Hypothetical and a Fictional Discussion)
(1997)A hypothetical and fictional discussion of a law that would ban political advertising on food products. -
What's in an Apricot?: The Seeds of Life and Death
(1995)Many complex issues arise when evaluating the ramifications of the FDA's treatment of Laetrile. While the implications of the strife created by Laetrile have much farther reaching effects regarding FDA's treatment of ... -
Whistleblower Protections for FDA and Private-Sector Employees
(2005)The goal of this paper is to provide an introduction to the whistleblower protection laws that impact the FDA as well as publicly traded pharmaceutical companies. The paper begins by discussing the recent developments ... -
Who Shall Meet the Foe If Not She? Women’s Participation in the Movement Leading Up to the Federal Food and Drug Act of 1906, As Seen Through the Pages of Good Housekeeping
(2002)This paper examines women’s participation in the movement leading up to the Federal Food and Drug Act of 1906 through a close reading of Good Housekeeping magazine between the years 1885 and 1907. The ...