Science and the Law

Analytical Data in Support of Regulation in Health, Food, and the Environment

Edited by William Town and Judith N. Currano

ACS Symposium Series

Examines case studies to explore the interaction between science and the law
Written by key experts in the field

Science and the Law

Analytical Data in Support of Regulation in Health, Food, and the Environment

Edited by William Town and Judith N. Currano

Description

Science and the Law: Analytical Data in Support of Regulation in Health, Food, and the Environment originated at an ACS symposium of the same name which aimed to explore the interaction between science and the law by examining various case studies and by focusing on the use of analytical data in support of regulation of health, food, and the environment. It was held at the Fall ACS Meeting in Philadelphia in August 2012, organized with the ACS Chemical Information Division's program but co-sponsored by a number of other ACS technical divisions.

This informative and rigorously-written analysis will appeal to professionals with both scientific and legal backgrounds, particularly those with an academic interest in food and environmental issues. A number of experts in the field discuss various issues involved in the dynamic between the science and the law in regards to environmental regulation.

Science and the Law

Analytical Data in Support of Regulation in Health, Food, and the Environment

Edited by William Town and Judith N. Currano

ACS Symposium Series

Contents
Preface
1. Looking Forward: Science-Based Policy-Making
2. Hunting and Gathering: Locating and Evaluating Information on the Cusp between Science and Legislation
3. Environmental Databases: A Trip down Memory Lane and New Journeys into the 21st Century
4. Regulatory Toxicology: Progress in Law
5. Analytical Procedures and the Regulation of New Drug Development
6. Steps Towards the Analytical Standards Required for Science-Based Tobacco Product Regulation
7. Regulatory Toxicology: Progress in Science
8. Cooperation between the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Industry To Develop an in Vitro Ocular Hazard Testing Strategy
9. Ensuring That Nutrition and Health Claims in the European Union on Foods and Food (Dietary) Supplements Are Justified and Scientifically Substantiated
10. Comprehensive Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Analysis of Honey
11. Rapid Screening Methods for Pharmaceutical Surveillance
Editors' Biographies
Indexes
Author Index
Subject Index

Science and the Law

Analytical Data in Support of Regulation in Health, Food, and the Environment

Edited by William Town and Judith N. Currano

ACS Symposium Series

Author Information

Edited by William Town and Edited by Judith N. Currano

William G. (Bill) Town is President of the Kilmorie Consulting Division of Kilmorie Clarke Ltd. Dr Town obtained chemistry degrees at the University of Birmingham and the University of Lancaster in the UK and worked at the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge before joining the European Commission at JRC Ispra in Italy. It was here, as leader of the ECDIN and EINECS projects, that his interest in the interaction between Science and the Law was first raised. His long career has spanned chemistry, databases, software, and publishing. In 2000, he was Chair of the ACS Chemical Information Division.

Judith N. Currano received a Bachelor of Arts degree in chemistry and English from the University of Rochester, where she performed independent research under Prof. Robert K. Boeckman, and a Master of Science degree in library and information science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For the past fifteen years, she has been the head of the Chemistry Library at the University of Pennsylvania, where, in addition to providing chemists with traditional library services, she teaches a graduate-level course in chemical information and trains students in research and publication ethics.

Contributors:

Sergey Arzhantsev
Lucinda F. Buhse
Francois Busquet
Judith N. Currano
Rodger D. Curren
Kenneth R. Foster
Connie M. Gryniewicz-Ruzicka
Cristine Ha
Thomas Hartung
Helena Hogberg
John F. Kauffman
Joseph G. Lelinho
George Lunn
Derek Mariner
Kevin McAdam
Michele Palopoli
István Pelczer
Christopher Proctor
David P. Richardson
Jason D. Rodriguez
Frederick W. Stoss
William Town