Confronted with the possibility of severe environmental harms, such as catastrophic climate change, some researchers have suggested that we should abandon the principle at the heart of standard ...

European Food and Feed Law Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2009), pp. 23-46 (24 pages) Wolfgang van den Daele, "Legal Framework and Political Strat- egy in Dealing with the Risks of New Technology: The Two ...

SAN FRANCISCO is poised to become the first city in the nation to adopt the Precautionary Principle -- a new policy framework widely used in western and northern European countries for developing laws ...

Since 1979, the European Union (EU) has enforced a safety standard of .01 ppb for all pesticides, even if here have been favorable safety reviews as was the case with atrazine. Unlike the United ...

In an editorial last month, this journal pointed out that the biosafety protocol recently completed in Montreal “violates a cardinal principal of regulation—namely, that the degree of scrutiny should ...

This module examines the role of international law in addressing some of the most pressing environmental challenges faced by the international community in the contemporary world order. In particular, ...

Better safe than sorry. That's a great lesson for a child when a parent explains why she should wear a helmet when riding her bicycle. But that refrain makes for terrible public health policy. "Better ...