Excessive alcohol use causes approximately 80,000 deaths in the United States each year. The Guide to Community Preventive Services recommends reducing the density of alcohol outlets - the number of physical locations in which alcoholic beverages are available for purchase either per area or per population - through the use of regulatory authority as an effective strategy for reducing excessive...

Current policies designed to improve food safety rely on regulation and market incentives. However, the mix of both private and public incentives to improve food safety and the dynamics of industry response to regulation make analysis of the costs of food safety complex. The paper provides an overview of costs of food safety regulation and control in recent literature for both pesticide and mic...

1 1. Introduction As a consequence of the TRIPS Agreement at the WTO, many developing countries have implemented or strengthened product patents in pharmaceuticals in recent years, though the Doha Declaration of 2001 clarified that the least developed WTO members may delay such implementation or enforcement of drug patents until 2016. TRIPS requires the provision of patents across virtually all...

1Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Department, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2Nuclear Sciences Research School, Radiation Applications Research School, Tehran, Iran 3National Radiation Protection Department, Iranian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, Teheran Iran 4Nuclear Sciences Research School, Nuclear Sciences and Technology Research Institute, ...

In 2007, Health Canada proposed a new framework to regulate prescriptive authority for controlled substances, titled New Classes of Practitioners Regulations (NCPR). The new regulatory framework was passed in November 2012; it gives nurse practitioners (NPs), midwives and podiatrists the authority to prescribe controlled medications under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. It is expected ...

This article examines the extent and limits of nonstate forms of authority in international relations. It analyzes how the information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure for the tradability of services in a global knowledge-based economy relies on informal regulatory practices for the adjustment of ICT-related skills. By focusing on the challenge that highly volatile and short-li...

A recent report of the National Research Council contains guidelines and recommendations for handling and disposing of unneeded chemicals from laboratories. Suggestions are also made for simplifying various procedures imposed by the regulatory agencies with authority over the disposal of laboratory chemicals.

a Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio 9, LT-10222 Vilnius, Lithuania E-mail: [email protected] b Institute of Materials Science and Applied Research, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio 9, LT-10222 Vilnius, Lithuania c Semiconductor Physics Institute, A. Goštauto 11, LT-01108 Vilnius, Lithuania d Department of Radio Communication, Communications Regulatory Authority of the Re...

This study will try to evaluate the regulatory governance of National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA). The authority was formed in 1997 overcome inefficiencies Water and Development (WAPDA) Karachi Supply Corporation (KESC) (now K-electric) improve power sector through good regulations. Moreover, it supposed protect interests consumers, investors, operators equally its autonomy, pro...

The presence of limited information with no detail in biosimilar guidelines major regulatory agencies, together findings clues suggestive possible controversies between their approaches made the issue strength one most curious areas for sponsors seeking authority answers questions regarding similarity proposed biosimilars reference products.