Specific Aspects Related to the Partnership Agreement

A new generation of trade policy: potential risks to diet-related health from the trans pacific partnership agreement

Trade poses risks and opportunities to public health nutrition. This paper discusses the potential food-related public health risks of a radical new kind of trade agreement: the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP). Under negotiation since 2010, the TPP involves Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the USA, and Vietnam. Here, we review th...

The Trans-pacific Partnership Agreement: Some Critical Concerns

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) involves twelve Pacific Rim economies of varying sizes and structures. Although often portrayed as a free trade agreement, the TPPA can, at best, be expected to deliver paltry overall growth gains from trade liberalization. The much higher figures touted by TPPA advocates are largely due to dubious ‘non-trade measures’, most of which have been reje...

CARICOM Perspectives on the CARIFORUM-EC, Economic Partnership Agreement

Specific and Non-Specific Thalamocortical Afferents to the Whisker–Related Sensory Cortical Region in Rats with Congenital Hypothyroidism

Background & Aims: Thyroid hormones are of great importance in the development of the central nervous system. Congenital hypothyroidism may affect the reorganization of specific and non-specific thalamocortical afferents to whisker–related sensory (wS1) corticol region in rats. Methods: Congenital hypothyroidism was induced by adding propylthiouracil (PTU) (25 ppm) to the rats...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: a threat to affordable medicines and public health

PhRMA has long criticized medicines insurance schemes premised on cost-effectiveness and reference pricing such as the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) in Australia and PHARMAC in New Zealand. The PhRMA submission to the USTR on the TTPA specifically targets alleged ‘market access barriers... inadequate consultative mechanisms and transparency concerns in countries like New Zealand’6. But t...