...TAK MENG CHOY GM520: Legal, Political, and Ethical Dimensions Week 2 TCO B Homework 1. State the administrative agency, which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). How will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? Provide the URL to the website where the regulation change proposal is located. (Check your URL to be sure it takes the reader to the actual regulation). (10 points) The FDA or also known as the Food and Drug Administration are agencies that control the rules and regulations. I decided to used this agency as my reference because the FDA is one the most popular and important agency. This proposed regulation change who filed this petition with the FDA to amend their rule is Cargill. Scientist and researchers in Cargill research and development laboratories and engineering departments have worked on this project for a number of years. If Cargill plant expansion to produce their product on that specific location, this would bring a positive economic impact to that location, only if the rules by the FDA become permanent. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) According to the FDA Summary, “amending the health claim regulation entitled ‘Soluble fiber from certain foods and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)’ to add barley beta fiber as an additional eligible source of beta-glucan soluble fiber.” The FDA has come to the agreement that there is an important...
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...GM520: Legal, Political, and Ethical Dimensions May 11, 2008 Week 2 TCO B Homework 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Service which main responsibility is to control the regulation of Food and Drug administration and is under the control of the United States federal executive departments. i. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). This agency interest me because I have a deep concern about the types of food and drugs that enter into our Caribbean market and other third world countries. After extensive research by many health professionals, it has been that many Caribbean islands and other third world countries are supplied with or import “rejected” foods and sometimes drugs from first world countries such as Europe and North America. If it is not good for one then why should it be good for the other? Are one of the many questions being asked by citizens. ii. Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. This proposed regulation wont affect the business in which i am working in but it will for certain allow citizens to become more aware as to the types of food that we import and will allow many to have an interest in medicine, thus, develop an...
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