The Delaney Clause: Technical Naivete and Scientific Advocacy in the Formulation of Public Health Policies
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This article is published in California Law Review.The article was published on 1974-07-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public health.read more
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Food safety: revising the statute.
TL;DR: Before a consensus can be reached, scientists, regulators, the food industry, and consumers will have to review such complex and controversial issues as the level of acceptable risk, the value of risk-benefit analysis, the proper role of independent scientific review, and the reliability of quantitative risk assessment.
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The Cranberry Scare of 1959: The Beginning of the End of the Delaney Clause
TL;DR: The cranberry scare of 1959 was the first food scare in the United States involving food additives to have a national impact as mentioned in this paper, and it was also the first event to test the Delaney clause, part of a 1958 amendment to the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act prohibiting cancer-causing chemicals in food.
Building an International Administrative Law of Expertise: Law and Science in the International Regulation of Trade, Health, and the Environment
TL;DR: Bushey et al. as discussed by the authors explored the process of contesting and constituting epistemic authority in international health and environmental law, and made a modest attempt to suggest pathways to constructing more broadly legitimate international practices for validating knowledge claims for taking collective international action.
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Estimation of risks due to environmental carcinogenesis
TL;DR: Examples of the inexactness of current toxicological, epidemiological, and mathematical models for estimating risk due to exposures to DDT, aflatoxinb1, DES, and benzidine are presented and Reference is made to major programs in toxicological methods for risk estimation.
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Linear non-threshold (LNT) fails numerous toxicological stress tests: Implications for continued policy use.
TL;DR: In this paper , a series of fundamental historical, physical, chemical, and biologically based toxicological "stress tests" were administered to the linear non-threshold (LNT) model, showing important limitations for its use in low dose extrapolation for all endpoints but with particular focus on cancer risk assessment where it is commonly applied.