BACKGROUND In June 2010, the Communities Putting Prevention to Work program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) funded a New Jersey (NJ) Office on Nutrition and Fitness, Department of Health and Senior Services project to reduce obesity and increase exclusive breastfeeding by increased implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in the state of NJ. At baseline, NJ had no Ba...

This paper investigates the potential of Geographical Indications to enhance environmental sustainability bivalve aquaculture, with a focus on Protected Designation Origin (PDO) granted bouchot mussel bay Mont Saint-Michel (BMSM). First, retrospective analysis PDO application process was carried out provide insight into specific and regulatory issues facing farming in BMSM (e.g. common resource...

BACKGROUND We studied to what extent the level of scientific knowledge on exceptionally rare metabolic inherited diseases and their potential orphan medicinal products is associated with sponsors deciding to apply for an orphan designation at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or the European Medicines Agency (EMA). METHODS All metabolic diseases with a genetic cause and prevalence of ...

Despite scientific uncertainty regarding the relative safety of inhaling e-cigarette aerosol and flavorings, some consumers regard the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) designation as evidence of flavoring safety. In this study, we assessed how college students' perceptions of e-cigarette flavoring safety are related to understanding of the GRAS designati...

Colleagues disagree with statements in our discussion (Cronin et al. 2015) regarding subspecies taxonomy of wolves (Canis lupus) in southeast Alaska (Weckworth et al. 2015) and the southwest United States (Fredrickson et al. 2015). Following the presentation of results of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) variation in several populations of wolves in North America, we discussed other genetic...

BACKGROUND Orphan designated medicinal products benefit from regulatory and economic incentives for orphan drug development. Approximately 40% of orphan designations target rare neoplastic disorders, referring to rare cancers. In order to provide more insights in drugs for rare neoplastic disorders that are under development and to better understand the role of orphan designation in the develop...

Agricultural insurance stands prominant in the protection of crop products. In Italy, increasing occurrence extreme weather events has had an important impact on market’s dynamics by lowering companies propensity to take climate risks. this context, main aim study is focus economic assessment demand for Controlled and Guaranteed Designation Origin (DOCG) area Conegliano-Valdobbiadene, exploitin...

In our recent paper on the nomenclature of the African species of the genus Stenodactylus (Metallinou & Crochet 2013) we argued that the lectotype designation made for Stenodactylus stenurus Werner, 1899 by Kratochvil et al. (2001) was invalid because the authors did not provide an express statement of the taxonomic purpose of the designation. This argument was based on Article 74.7.3 of the In...