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This paper first briefly introduces the reader to nanotechnology and the potential health risks it raises. It then reviews how nanotechnology is or may be used by the food industry so that challenges that must be addressed by food regulations can be better understood. The application of current...
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concerns about the practice leading to wholesale reform of Australia’s short selling regulation. Since the GFC, short selling … regulation in Australia has remained largely unchanged and attracted little public attention. Yet legislation introduced in the … whether short selling regulation in Australia is fit for purpose. To address this question, this article examines the negative …
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Pharmaceutical regulatory agencies struggle worldwide to maintain public trust these days. Drug safety issues proliferate, the costs of pharmaceuticals take increasingly larger shares of most countries' health service spending, and conflicts of interest afflicting the drug approval and marketing...
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children's obesity levels and pressure for more restrictive regulation of this advertising. The purpose of this article is to … evaluate the efficacy of the Code and the capacity of self-regulation to protect children's interests in relation to food … effective self-regulation. The article identifies a number of deficiencies in the Code and self-regulatory scheme, and concludes …
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The Australian law on parallel importing of trade marked goods appears to be inconsistent with the objectives of that law. A combination of the new legislation in 1995 and case law since that legislation has led to the erosion of a regulatory scheme which was previously more tolerant of parallel...
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This article examines to what extent there is legacy of the Commission’s labour standards in the new legislated standards in the National Employment Standards and dismissal protection in the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). The Commission’s ‘community standards’, mainly from ‘test cases’...
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Innovations impact societies in a variety of ways. Successful innovations are utility enhancing, in that they create a higher degree of benefits that offset any of the potential disadvantages of the innovation. Unsuccessful innovations suffer from the reverse, in that they result in more...
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Modern, commercial fantasy sports came to Australia in 2001. It has since grown into a significant and accepted part of the Australian sporting and gambling landscape. Fantasy sports’ mainstreaming has been relatively uncontroversial. It has found its place within Australia’s regulatory...
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Since the EU passed the PSD II, countries across the world have or are contemplating a new framework to govern data sharing among different players in financial markets—a trend called ‘Open Banking’ that requires or encourages banks to share consumer-permissioned banking data with third...
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