Corporate efforts related to regulatory science

Have Regulatory Efforts to Reduce Organophosphorus Insecticide Exposures Been Effective?

BACKGROUND The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA) was signed into law in 1996 to strengthen the regulation of pesticide tolerances in food. Organophosphorus (OP) insecticides were the first group of pesticides reviewed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the new law. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to determine whether urinary concentrations of dialkylphosphate (DAP) metabolites of...

Hazardous Drugs: Legislative and Regulatory Efforts to Improve Safe Handling
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Several organizations have safety guidelines regarding handling of hazardous drugs. That said, only Washington and California have enforceable laws that regulate these practices. This article shares the experiences of three states-Washington, Michigan, and North Carolina-in advancing legislative and regulatory efforts. It also offers guidance to nurses seeking to improve the way hazardous drugs...

Efforts to Encourage Multidisciplinarity in the Cognitive Science Society.

(this issue) have documented a situation that naturally concerns all of us, the extent to which the journal Cognitive Scienc,e and the annual meetings of the Cognitive Science Society represent the multidisciplinary breadth of the field of cog-nitive science. As editors of the Society's journal, organizers of the 1998 meeting of the Society, and members of the committee of the Cognitive Governi...

Tobacco Companies’ Public Relations Efforts: Corporate Sponsorship and Advertising

Tobacco Companies’ Public Relations Efforts: Corporate Sponsorship and Advertising

Tobacco industry advertising and promotional efforts often are aimed directly toward the sale of industry products. However, corporate public relations activities also can have an important impact on the public images of and attitudes toward individual tobacco companies. This chapter examines the nature and potential impact of such efforts, including n Corporate sponsorship of events and organi...