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New FDA lab tests rule could bankrupt small labs
Yesterday the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that on May 6 it will promulgate a rule under its authority to regulate medical devices.
National Review
Covid Vaccines: An Update on Balancing Risks and Benefits
A new large, multi-country study has confirmed what previous smaller studies found: Covid-19 vaccines have risks. In particular, the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines from Pfizer and…
Washington Times
Better late than never: New York Times finally admits school shutdowns hurt children
The New York Times has made a “startling” discovery. Its editorial board has recognized that “school closures that took 50 million children out of classrooms…
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Reject the Precautionary Principle, a Threat to Technological Progress
Full Document Available in PDF Increasingly, governments and environmental activists…
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Happy Meal Lawsuit, cont’d
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Judge Should Have Struck Down Entire Law (Letter to the Editor)
This editorial about a federal judge striking down Obamacare’s individual insurance-purchase mandate rightly noted that the law lacks a severability clause. Because of…
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Food Safety: Why Is the Food Safety Bill So Controversial?
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Judge to Obamacare architects: Ahem. Meet the Constitution, power-grabbers.
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Obamacare Mandate as Unconstitutional
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The Health Care Law Under the Judicial Knife: Some Early Reactions
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McDonald’s Obesity Class Action Dismissed
Washington Examiner
Government Health Programs Skew Incentives; People Respond
Forget QE2; this is QED. When a health-care providing government pays doctors according to how many procedures they perform, rather than by the effectiveness or…
Washington Examiner
The Food Industry Plays Regulatory Roulette
Washington Examiner
Food safety bill update (and welcome readers)
Washington Examiner
More FDA Authority Won’t Improve Food Safety
In its rush to enact sweeping new food safety legislation during the lame-duck session, Congress hit a procedural roadblock that may put the bill off…
Washington Examiner
The Environmental Impact Subterfuge
Action needs to be taken to prevent anti-biotech activists from co-opting environmental law to derail the planting of transgenic crops that have already received regulatory…
Washington Examiner
Trimming the Fat
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Safe Drinking Water Act Overview
Full Document Available in PDF Since passage of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA)…
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Pesticides and Public Health
Full Document Available in PDF In recent years, public health authorities have expressed serious…
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Pesticides and Agriculture
Full Document Available in PDF In 1989, environmental activists claimed that a chemical called Alar…
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Food Quality Protection Act
Full Document Available in PDF In 1996, the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) amended the two…
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International Fisheries
Full Document Available in PDF The history of fisheries management in the United States largely…
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Amicus in Obamacare Litigation on Behalf of Minn., Rhode Island Governors
Full Document Avalible in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute is representing Governors Tim Pawlenty (R, Minn.) and Donald Carcieri (R, Rhode Island)…
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Population
Full Document Available in PDF In his 1798 Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus argued…
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Cancer Trends
Full Document Available in PDF In recent decades, many have claimed that cancer is rising…
Washington Examiner
‘Natural’ Foods Activist Gets It Wrong
Washington Examiner
Does FDA’s Caffeinated Alcoholic Beverage Ban go too Far?
Washington Examiner
Brief of Governors Tim Pawlenty and Donald L. Carcieri As Amici Curiae In Support of Plaintiffs’ Motion for Summary Judgment
Washington Examiner
FDA Criticized for Ban on Alcoholic Energy Drinks
Washington Examiner
Agencies Target ‘Blackout in a Can’
Fox News
FDA’s Graphic Warnings for Cigarettes: Noble Ad Campaign or Nanny State at Work?
Legal Brief
Amicus Motion in Obamacare Litigation
The Competitive Enterprise Institute is representing Governors Tim Pawlenty (R, Minn.) and Donald Carcieri (R, Rhode Island) seeking permission to file an amicus brief in…
Philly.com
Pawlenty Joins in Overhaul Suit
Google News
Minn.’s Pawlenty Ups Challenge to Fed Health Law
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Pawlenty Seeks to Add Voice to Health Care Suit
Google News
USDA’s System Invites Lawsuits, Researchers Say
Politico
Tim Pawlenty Joins Health Bill Lawsuit
Politico
Pawlenty Ups Challenge to Health Care Law
Texas Insider
An End to Out-of-State Beer?
Washington Times
Cigarette Warnings to be More Graphic?
US News
Tobacco Settlement Could Go to the Supreme Court
MPR News
Little Change to Agriculture Policy, Even as Peterson Loses Chair
Energy Tomorrow
Is EPA Protecting Human Health?
Energy Tomorrow
New Obama healthcare plan relies on imaginary savings, costs $2 trillion, explodes budget deficits
Energy Tomorrow
FDA: Genetically Modified Salmon Are Safe for Consumption, Environment
Energy Tomorrow
High Cost Is Not Worst Thing About Obamacare (Letter to the Editor)
The Examiner was right to criticize Obamacare for being even more costly than many of its opponents expected, but the worst things about it…
Energy Tomorrow
Physician-legislator Dr. Ritze Speaks Out Against ObamaCare
Energy Tomorrow
List of nation’s worst AGs includes Rhode Island’s Patrick C. Lynch
Energy Tomorrow
Upstream Battle for Genetically Engineered Salmon
Over the last two decades, the use of modern genetic engineering technology to produce pharmaceuticals and new crop plants has given rise to prodigious scientific,…
Energy Tomorrow
Don’t Blame BPA on Lobster Decline
If you trust the headlines, you might think that the biggest challenge facing the lobster industry in New York and New England is pollution —…
Energy Tomorrow
USA – The billion dollar drug lobby in overdrive
Energy Tomorrow