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THE HISTORY OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LABELING REGULATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR A HEALTH CLAIM ON WINE LABELS
(1998)This paper has two main goals. First, it will provide a history of the FDA-ATF relationship with regard to jurisdiction over alcoholic beverage labeling regulation. This part of the paper will be largely descriptive in ... -
The History of Aspartame
(2000)These two opposing tensions, the market desire for low-calorie foods including sugar substitutes, and the fear of consumer manipulation by a burgeoning industry and a collusive FDA, drive the fascinating history of aspartame. ... -
THE HISTORY OF FDA REGULATION OF BIOTECHNOLOGY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
(1999)This paper attempts to provide a chronological history of the significant events and influences that have shaped the regulation of biotechnology by the Federal Food and Drug Administration. This paper first chronicles the ... -
A History of Federal Control of Communicable Diseases: Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act
(2002)The federal government possesses broad powers under Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act to regulate the entry and spread of communicable diseases into and among the United States. Though this power has played a ... -
THE HISTORY OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA IN THE U.S. AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE CURRENT LEGAL IMPEDIMENTS TO THE MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA IN THE STATES
(1997)The twenty-five year controversy surrounding the illegal status of medicinal marijuana, which remains unresolved, provides an excellent study of the relationship between the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), the Drug ... -
The History of Organic Food Regulation
(2001)This paper explores the growth in organic food regulation that has accompanied the corresponding growth in the overall organic food business. -
The History of the Informed Consent Requirement in United States Federal Policy
(2001)The informed consent provision in United States federal policy serves a crucial function by protecting human subjects participating in medical research experiments. This paper will trace the development of informed consent ... -
The History of the Regulation of Menstrual Tampons
(2001)This paper examines the regulation of menstrual tampons in the United States from their introduction to the market some twenty five years ago to the standards that govern them in the twenty first century. After a brief ... -
History Repeating? Avoiding a Return to the Pre-Antibiotic Age
(2005)Antibiotics are among the most important discoveries of medical science. Analysis of infectious disease mortality data from the U.S. government reveals that antibacterial agents may save over 200,000 American lives annually, ... -
Hollow Government: Resource Constraints and Workload Expansion at the Food and Drug Administration [redacted version]
(2001)This paper will examine the phenomenon of hollow government at the Food and Drug Administration during the 1990s. First, it will develop the concept of hollow government, describing its causes and effects and providing ... -
How We Mistreat the Animals We Eat
(2001)There has been an enormous transition in the United States from a nation comprised of small-scale, local family farms to one dominated by large-scale, corporate operations, appropriately termed “factory ... -
HUMAN CLONING AND FDA REGULATION
(1998)In the February 27, 1997 issue of the journal Nature scientists from Scotland's Roslin Institute reported their successful efforts to clone an adult sheep using differentiated somatic cells from the animal. The clone, named ... -
Hunger in America: A History of Public and Private Responses
(2004)This paper surveys the variety of public and private hunger relief programs in America, reviewing the history of these programs in order to enable an informed analysis of their effectiveness in fighting domestic hunger. -
A Hypothetical Case: UNITED STATES v. Clonaid
(2003)The government took the place of FDA to bring a suit against Clonaid Company to grant preliminary injunction to enjoin defendant Clonaid Company from cloning human beings and using human embryos in SCNT research in violation ... -
Ideals and Issues From a Critical View of the Supreme Court’s Jurisprudence in FDA Regulation of Human Drugs
(2003)Since Congress first enacted an extensive regulatory regime for human drugs in 1906 with the Pure Food and Drug Act, the Supreme Court has shaped the contours of federal drug regulation with a variety of legal doctrines ... -
The Illusory Promise: Patents (Lack of) Power to Incentivize Drug Development for Poor Countries
(2006)Low-income countries suffer infectious and communicable diseases at a greater rate than any other income group. Because people living in these countries are not able to pay high drug prices, pharmaceutical companies do not ... -
The Image and Politics of Coca-Cola: From the Early Years to the Present
(2001)This paper examines the history of Coca-Cola from its early years to the present and discusses how the Company perpetuated the various images it sought for Coke through brilliant leadership, marketing, and the manipulation ... -
IN CIPRO WE TRUST: BUT HOW DO WE FEEL ABOUT OUR DRUG PATENT LAWS? (2002 Third Year Paper)
(2002)In many ways, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, crystallized national debate over drug patents both in Canada and the United States. This became clear when, at the height of the anthrax attacks in October, NBC's ... -
THE INADEQUATE RESPONSE OF THE FDA TO THE CRISIS OF AIDS IN THE BLOOD SUPPLY
(1995)The response of the blood industry and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the problem of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the nation's blood supply has been called "inadequate and abysmal," "unnecessarily ... -
Incrementalism in Pharmaceutical Research: Incentives and Policy Implications
(2006)The tremendous commercial success of drugs which scientific data suggest are of no benefit to most patients relative to pre-existing drugs is illustrative of a phenomenon in pharmaceutical markets whereby products can ...