Nathanael Sim‚ Tay Wenyao‚ Shi Jinhua‚ Tong Mingshuo Factual Summary of Case Australian tourist‚ Michael McCarthy‚ suffered a fall and broke his back while riding Sentosa’s MegaZip‚ which is a flying fox adventure ride run by Flying Dragon Adventures (FDA). The riders would initially slide down the zipline fast and would be slowed down by a braking mechanism as they approach the landing platform. However‚ in this case‚ McCarthy was travelling towards the landing platform at a faster speed than usual
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The Federal Agency I am choosing is Food and Drug Administration or FDA for short. The FDA is a Federal Agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. This Federal Agency is part of the Executive Departments. This Administration was founded on June 30‚ 1906 and the founders were Theodore Roosevelt and Harvey Washington Wiley. Some of the Subsidiaries are Center for Drug Evaluation and Research‚Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition‚ and National Center for Toxicological
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RUNNING HEAD: FDA Food Regulations FDA Food Regulations (Week 2 Assignment) Vanansio Samson MGMT-520 Keller Graduate School of Management Professor Cathryn Kent January 20‚ 2013 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so‚ how? Submit a copy of
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hazardous were Dr. Scott Gottlieb and Peter Huber. They believed that the FDA is performing too many tests that take too long in the name of statistics. They said that the FDA should release medication that could save lives as early as possible and let doctors decide if the medication will benefit their patients. Arguing that the FDA’s caution is not hazardous were Dr. Jerry Avorn and Dr. David Challoner. They believed that the FDA should continue with their testing methods if not test more. They said
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Business Law October 11‚ 2000 The FDA has many responsibilities which include overseeing the production of safe foods and the manufacture of safe and effective drugs and medical devices. The FDA has responsibility for protecting the rights and safety of patients in the clinical trials of investigation medical products. The FDA also has to review and approve in a timely manner the safety and efficiency of new drugs‚ biologics‚ medical devices‚ and animal drugs. They have to monitor the
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Administration (FDA) is the organization responsible for making the laws that prohibit gay men from donating blood. In fact‚ the law states that any man who has had sex with another man since 1977‚ even once‚ is banned from giving blood. Ironically‚ a heterosexual man can have unprotected anal sex with a female prostitute‚ and then donate blood twelve months later. However‚ a gay man in a monogamous relationship who practices safe sex is forever banned from donating his blood. The FDA ’s policy first
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the safety of marijuana compared to the safety of FDA-approved drugs. On June 24‚ 2005 ProCon.org sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to find the number of deaths caused by marijuana compared to the number of deaths caused by 17 FDA-approved drugs. Twelve of these FDA-approved drugs were chosen because they are commonly prescribed in place of medical marijuana‚ while the remaining five FDA-approved drugs were randomly selected because they
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The medical field is filled with research and new or improved experimental treatments which require FDA approval for public consumption. Despite FDA approval these drugs are still not completely safe and therefore come with a variety of warnings and side effects. A question of fault sometimes arises when a user experiences a complication. That was precisely what happened with an injectable form of a drug called Phenergan. The Phenergan label advised extreme caution and provided a clear warning of
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maybe we value animal’s lives less than our own and the hierarchy which has become earth. Although there are some flaws in the way that the FDA regulates animals‚ there is also proof that they are putting in some sort of effort. From food to animal testing‚ there are many ways in which the FDA can come across some sort of backlash. The question remains; does the FDA protect animals?
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Drug Administration (FDA) and is now an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHS) (FDA Milestones‚ 2006). The FDA’s main objective is to protect and promote public health through regulating and testing foods and new products‚ overseeing the research‚ development‚ regulation‚ and recall of products already on the shelves for consumer use. We will further define the FDA‚ its responsibilities‚ and choose a product to show how the regulatory requirements of the FDA impacts consumer choices
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