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Current index to legal periodicals

New developments in technology usually entail some hazard as well as advantage to a society. Hazard of a material translates into risk by exposure of humans and/or their environment to the agent in question, and risk is reduced by control of exposure, usually guided by regulation based on understanding of the mechanisms of harm. We illustrate risks relating to the causation of diseases associated with exposure to aerosols of combustion particles and asbestos, leading to paradigms of particle toxicity, and discuss analogies with potential exposure to manufactured nanoparticles (NPs). We review the current understanding of the hazard of NPs derived from the new science of nanotoxicology and the limited research to date into human exposure to these particles. We identify gaps in knowledge relating to the properties of NPs that might determine toxicity and in understanding the most appropriate ways both to measure this in the laboratory and to assess it in the workplace. Nevertheless, we point out that physical principles governing the behaviour of such particles allow determination of practical methods of protecting those potentially exposed. Finally, we discuss the early steps towards regulation and the difficulties facing regulators in controlling potentially harmful exposures in the absence of sufficient scientific evidence.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsif.2009.0252.focus

Nanoparticles, human health hazard and regulation

Principles of biomedical ethics (5th edn 2001)

The World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is a treaty to address the health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke worldwide.

WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

Our profession is a remarkable pursuit, rich with men and women like you, yearning to promote justice. It is an honorable profession, and the rule of law it professes is the bedrock of Democracy. We as a nation are currently embarked on a worldwide effort to promote democracy abroad. We are engaged in this quest for the sake of others but also because it is in our own best interest. Our theory is that democracies provide the sturdiest platform for advancing human rights ... that human rights and freedom are the surest path to stability ... that freedom removes the bitterness and hopelessness and despair that breed terrorism. Our efforts to foster democracy, even in areas where it has never been known, is a noble effort. But it's based on self interest. Until we interrupt the cycle of radicalism and repression among the tyrannies around the globe, we will never be safe. In today's world, our security depends upon the freedom of others. Democracy starts with voting, and majority rule. But it is successful only when it has, at its foundation, a society that provides minority rights, dispenses equal justice, tolerates a free media-and operates under the rule of law. This concept harnesses individual rights as well as majority rule to the democratic process. We have grown up in the United States in a society of laws, not of men. We tend to take that concept for granted. But in most emerging democracies, the rule of law is an alien idea, almost incomprehensible. It is critical, as we promote free elections, that we also promote the rule of law throughout the world. The rule of law involves four basic requirements: Equality under the law. A respect for individual rights. An independent and honest judiciary. And transparent court proceedings. Without a strong commitment to every aspect, even a democratic society will not mature.

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Democracy and the Rule of Law

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An overview of the framework of current regulation affecting the development and marketing of nanomaterials

Advance Fee Fraud on the Internet: Nigeria's Regulatory Response

A spate of legislations prohibiting cigarette smoking in enclosed public spaces, mainly on grounds of public health protection, recently swept across cities around the world. This is in tandem with a raft of increasingly restrictive national laws that emerged on the back of the ratification of the WHO Framework for Tobacco Control by more than one 168 countries in 2005. The central debate on the increasingly restrictive tobacco laws revolves on the extent to which public health interests justification should ground political intervention in a private right as basic as tobacco smoking, which interestingly is often lumped in the food and beverage category. The pertinent legal and ethical questions therefore are the following: Is or should there be a general unrestricted right to tobacco smoking? If there were such a right, should public health or ethical considerations trump private right to smoke in enclosed public spaces? And if public health interests were so paramount, should they go farther and ground tobacco smoking proscription in all private and public spheres? Using ethical principles and rights-based arguments, the paper critically examines the legal and ethical ramifications of public health justification for tobacco smoking proscription in enclosed public spaces.

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Ethical and Legal Analyses of Policy Prohibiting Tobacco Smoking in Enclosed Public Spaces

The recent rejection by the drought-stricken Southern African countries of genetically modified ("GM") food donated by the United States1 mainly on safety grounds and the divergent scientific views on the propriety of their objection, have rekindled the debates on public health implications of GM food consumption and cast shadows on agricultural biotechnology's prospects. This paper examines the disparate scientific views on GM food safety, the place of consumer's choice, legal, and ethical issues in GM food governance in the context of Singapore, which relies entirely on food imports.

Consumer Dilemmas: The Right to Know, Safety, Ethics and Policy of Genetically Modified Food

Access to affordable prescription drug is the critical mass of any meaningful public health policy. However, the spiralling prescription drug costs and the concomitant access problems are transcendent, posing a daunting challenge for governments of both rich and poor countries. Arguably the greatest challenge for policy makers is how best to secure affordable prescription drug in the name of welfare and equity, without trammelling innovative medicine. However, the combustible mixture of patents, markets, and the pharmaceutical industry’s penchant for maximising profits, has helped shape the current trajectory of pharmaceutical R&D disproportionate targeting of profitable drug representing just ten per cent of the world’s disease burden. By the same markets token, the United States, the country with the most competitive pharmaceutical industry, still struggles against the tide of cross-border purchase of cheaper prescription drug by her citizens in Canada and Mexico. In Britain, as in most European countries, the highly regulated prescription drug pricing regime under the national health insurance scheme, often excludes expensive ‘drug of last resort’ albeit with proven clinical benefits. India has been regulating drug prices since the 1950s, and the recent spike in cheaper generics of patented drugs, has exacerbated tensions, and set local and foreign pharmaceutical industry on a collision course. Using empirical data and relevant literature, the paper critically reviews the cumulative effects of the legal and socio-economic externalities that shape the current global pharmaceutical production trajectory. While noting the imperatives of equitably balancing the inherent conflicts between the pharmaceutical industry’s profit-maximising objectives and public health needs, the paper canvasses for the supplementation of the current patents and markets driven monocultural prescription drug economics, with a normative, non-market, internationally mediated drug production paradigm that is cognisant of the overriding public health needs.

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Taiwo Ayodele Oriola

Papers

An overview of the framework of current regulation affecting the development and marketing of nanomaterials

Advance Fee Fraud on the Internet: Nigeria's Regulatory Response

Ethical and Legal Analyses of Policy Prohibiting Tobacco Smoking in Enclosed Public Spaces

Consumer Dilemmas: The Right to Know, Safety, Ethics and Policy of Genetically Modified Food

Strong medicine: patents, market, and policy challenges for managing neglected diseases and affordable prescription drugs