How Do Regulators Regulate? Enforcement of the Pure Food and Drugs Act, 1907-38RegulationenforcementbureaucracyFDAEconomists have devoted relatively little attention to analyzing how government officials actually enforce regulation. This is a significant omission since theSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
The federal government has pushed states to lower the legal limit. The American Medical Association says that a person can become impaired when the blood alcohol level hits 0.05. If a person's BAC measures 0.08, it means that there are 0.08 grams of alcohol per 100 ml of blood. Types of...
economically advanced countries usually have similar regulations to the U.S. when it comes to manufacturing. For example, Canadians count on their government to regulate medications approved for sale in Canada throughHealth Canada's Therapeutic Products Directorate, Canada's equivalent to the U.S. ...
The main objective of this review was to present a variety of actions to minimize the problem of the presence of pharmaceuticals in the environment, which should be implemented for the comprehensive management of the problem, with emphasis on downstream actions. Thereby, despite the pharmaceuticals u...
GLP-1s work by slowing stomach emptying, which results in greater feelings of fullness and decreased appetite. They also stimulate the release of insulin from the pancreas to regulate blood sugar in response to meals. People taking GLP-1s lose, on average, 13% of their body weight after appro...
Nascent efforts to regulate artificial intelligence aren’t isolated to the US and the EU. Since early 2016, many national, regional and international authorities have begun adopting strategies, action plans and policy papers on AI. The UK government, for instance, has issued guidance on the “re...
So the FDA does not regulate bottled water as tightly as it regulates, say, prescription drugs. In some areas, FDA regulations are actually stricter than the EPA's rules for tap water, as in the case of lead. Tap water, which travels through lead pipes to get to your faucet, is ...
Not only does the ISS crew need to know their precise whereabouts, but they've also got to locate other objects — and figure out how to get from Point A to Point B, especially during reboosts. To discern its speed and location, the ISS uses Russian and U.S. global positioning systems...
drugs, one can get hooked to a phone or an activity on the phone that leads to addiction. There is abuse without control, changes in mood, excessive desire to use, withdrawals like irritability and anger when you can’t use the phone, low tolerance to avoid the phone, and the phone ...
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