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Potentially Hazardous Merchandise: Domestic And International Mechanisms For Consumer Protection, Eric Shuman
Potentially Hazardous Merchandise: Domestic And International Mechanisms For Consumer Protection, Eric Shuman
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Health disorders engendered by hazardous, exported foods, pesticides, drugs, and other products recently have attracted worldwide attention. The exportation of products which have been banned or highly restricted in their country of origin or which become hazardous in the environment of the importing nation is a popular issue for opponents of a perceived monolithic transnational industrial complex, as well as for critics of certain United States corporations. A more widely shared opinion is that the United States has a moral obligation to limit foreseeable harm from the export of potentially hazardous merchandise or at least to supply product hazard information. …