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Tilting at Food Safety Windmills
Unfortunately, as long as the world's food production system continues to be highly decentralized and fragmented, there will continue to be foodborne illness outbreaks like…
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Supreme Court Considers Tort Preemption for Medicines
Diana Levine suffered from chronic migraine headaches for many years. So, in April 2000, when she went to a local clinic to get treatment,…
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Misplaced Priorities on Stem Cell Research
Sigrid Fry-Revere has a post over at The Hill Blog questioning the merits of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. As her new…
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Anna Tomalis, R.I.P.
Last Friday, I attended the funeral of a remarkable 13-year-old girl named Anna Tomalis. For the past three years, Anna had been battling terminal…
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EU Governments Fund Environmental Activism
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Sick Patients Need Cutting-Edge Drugs
The story of Anna Tomalis trying to recieve a compassionate usage exemption from the FDA to treat her cancer.
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FDA’s Bad Medicine
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FDA’s Bad Medicine
How the dispersed knowledge problem affects drug safety analysis and how markets and technology will help patients…
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Drug Reimportation’s Dangerous Allure
A Misguided Cost-Control Measure Guaranteed to Harm Patient Care…
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Bill Kovacic Named FTC Chairman
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Oh, if only both sides could lose …
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Where’s the Beef?
It’s not often that American food companies join hands with environmental and consumer activists to call for greater government control over the nation’s food…
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Europe’s Continued Hostility to GM Crops Runs Afoul of Science, WTO
France, Germany, and the United Kingdom may have new leaders who bring the promise overall of better trans-Atlantic relations, but when it comes to the…
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Promoting Healthy Biopharmaceutical Competition
Full Document Available in PDF The Hatch-Waxman Act, enacted by Congress 23 years ago,…
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Robert Reich Reformed?
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Happy Birthday, Biotechnology
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Italian Frankenfood
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Commentary Roundup
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Supremes to Decide Federal Preemption of State Tort Claims
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Comments to USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Regarding the Agency’s Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Sta
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UN Group Rejects Precautionary Principle
The Codex Alimentarius Commission, a joint UN Food and Agricultural Organization-World Health Organization food safety standard-setting body, has apparently agreed to exclude the…
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Whole Foods Merger Analysis
I may be going out on a limb here, but I predict, on the basis of what happened in court yesterday, that the Whole Foods…
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Dan Koshland R.I.P.
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Dying for FDA Reform
Full Document Available in PDF This year, Congress is considering a variety of legislative…
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Cell Phones and Driving
Interesting new study from James E. Prieger of Pepperdine University and Bob Hahn at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, looking at the…
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Can You Clone that Thoroughbred?
USA Today has an interesting article this morning about the position of various purebred animal promotion associations (think American Kennel Club) on animal…
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Healthy Competition
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Comments of the Competitive Enterprise Institute to the Food and Drug Administration Regarding the Agency’s Animal Cloning Draft
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Modern Prometheus
Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Peace Prize winning agronomist, will turn 93 on Sunday, March 25, 2007. It’s a birthday well worth celebrating. His life’s…
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Does Organic Food Cause Allergies?
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The Lights Are Out, But Nobody’s Home
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Spinach Contamination Confirmed As Organic
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More Evidence that Fish is Healthy and Politics Isn’t
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EU Comes Clean on Reg Policy
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Where’s The Precautionary Principle When We Need It?
Today’s Wall Street Journal (link for subscribers) has a short piece in the B section noting how a new Bush Administration…
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(Not So) Rotten Tomatoes and Sour Grapes
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Monsanto Biotech Monopoly, Courtesy of the EU
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Good News, Bad News on Food Biotech
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Drug Industry Gone to the Dogs
My dog is fat. Obese, even, if the FDA is to be believed. The arrival of my new-born son two years ago has meant fewer…
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FDA Animal Cloning Decision Comes Years Too Late
In an invited post on The Hill’s Congress Blog yesterday, I argued that the…
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Animal cloning no barnyard bijou
There was a time when you would be labeled a right-wing extremist for demanding the Food and Drug Administration base decisions on morality…
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Fake Boobs and Phony Science
To follow up on a thread from yesterday, FDA’s decision to let silicon gel filled breast implants back on the market is noteworthy for two…
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Junk Food Blogging
Sandy Szwarc, a registered nurse, certified culinary professional, CEI friend, and all around good person, recently started a blog on the science of food —…
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The Sleeping Pill Ate My Homework
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Why spurning food biotech has become a liability
Henry I. Miller, MD, Gregory Conko & Drew L. Kershen By rejecting gene-spliced ingredients in their products, some major food companies may be…
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No, Rice Krispies Aren’t Bio-Toxic
If you listen to environmental activists these days, you might think that snap, crackle, and pop coming from your Rice Krispies is the…
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New Era, or ‘Ancien Régime,’ for European Biotech?
The long-awaited World Trade Organization (WTO) decision on biotech food is due to be released this spring, but a leaked copy of the…
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The UN vs. Technology
With diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS ravaging the world's poor—and perhaps a flu pandemic in the offing—the United Nations'…
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WTO and Biotech Food: Who Really Won?
The long-awaited World Trade Organization decision on biotechnology applied to agricultural products, finally released earlier this month, elicited a great deal of buzz…
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Three Cheers for WTO Decision on Biotech Food
What do an <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags” />Iowa corn grower, a Thai rice farmer, and a Dutch grocery shopper have…