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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. …
Acid Precipitation In North America: The Case For Transboundary Cooperation, Douglas M. Johnston, Peter Finkle
Acid Precipitation In North America: The Case For Transboundary Cooperation, Douglas M. Johnston, Peter Finkle
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Long-range air pollution has emerged as a serious environmental problem in Europe and North America since the early 1950s. The most critical aspect of this problem is the movement over very long distances of airborne pollutants which eventually are deposited in harmful acid compounds. These pollutants originate in a multiplicity of stationary and mobile emission sources. Because the original pollutants undergo chemical changes during the atmospheric transport, the pollutants which ultimately cause damage are chemically different from the original emissions. Moreover, the pollutants, which are usually deposited in the form of rain or snow, cause harm only in special physical …