The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday opened an inspection office in Beijing to help China export safer products to America and the world an to boost consumer confidence in products imported from China, reports the LA Times.
The new FDA field office, one of three to be opened in China, is the first outside [...]
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The UN has banned smoking at “all United Nations indoors premises, including regional and country offices throughout the United Nations system”, and that tobacco sales be banned at “all United Nations premises”. WHO
About 300 people have died in Zimbabwe in recent weeks in a cholera outbreak which has hit about 6,000 people. The World Health Organization [...]
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A study published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Law and Economics found that viewing more fast food television commercials raises the risk of obesity in children.
The economists in the study estimated that if the US was to ban fast food adverts from televiosion programs, the number of overweight children in the [...]
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