Food Law and Food Standard Agency in UK
Role of Food Standard Agency (FSA) 1. approve establishments and official controls 2. audit local authorities 3. set up code of practice 4. report food problem and authority officer training 5. food alerts and monitoring 6. execution of The General Food Law Regulation (EC) 178/2002 - EU legislation and provides the general principles of food safety - the requirements on food businesses to place safe food on the market - traceability of food - presentation of food - withdrawal
Research Ethics Committee (REC)
Regulatory Strategies: 1. minimal risk and risk proportionate to research benefit 2. informed consent 3. no undue influence and inducement to participate 4. protection of vulnerable research participants 5. protection of research invoking deception of participants (such as use of placebo) 6. ensuing the confidentiality and security of research and personal data 7. compliance with the law
Theory of Regulation - Decentred Regulation
Key Characteristics: 1. The government do not, and proposition that they should not have a monopoly on regulation and that regulation occurring within and between other social actors. 2. It is part of the globalisation debate on the one hand, and of the debate on the developments of mezzo-levels of government (regionalism, devolution, federalism) on the other. 3. It describes the consequence of a particular analysis of social systems, in which politics and administration are,
Level of evidence
Level of evidence determines the current clinical practice: 1a: systemic reviews of randomised controlled trials 1b: individual randomised controlled trial with narrow confidence interval 1c: all or none randomised controlled trial 2a: cohort studies 2b: individual cohort study or low quality randomised controlled trial 2c: "outcomes" research, ecological studies 3a: case-control studies 3b: individual case-control study 4: case series 5: expert opinion In the past, we rely o
Confidentiality - Important Quotes
[Declaration of Geneva] Amended in 2006 I will respect the secrets which are confided in me, even after the patient has died. [The Hippocratic Oath] Whatever, in connection with my professional practice, or not in connection with it, I see or hear in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets. [Mason and McCall Smith] Confidentiality remains the undeniable stalwart of the doctor-patient relationship.....
North West Lancashire Health Authority v A, D & G [1999][2000]
Three respondents have transsexualism and attended gender identity clinic and requested gender reassignment treatment. The health authority refused to fund them under the National Health Service in accordance with its policy in 1995 and 1998, They applied for judicial review. In 1998, the judge quashed the health authority's decision and policy. On appeal to the Court of Appeal, the health authority claimed due to the limited resources, transsexualism had a lower priority. He
Models of science-policy relationship
There are increase in diet-related ill-health in the community with increase in non-communicable diseases due to the industrial food, salty and fatty food. One of the illustrations will be obesity. Energy gap models which quantified the association of changes in energy intake and expenditure with weight change, and have documented the effect of higher intake on obesity prevalence. Policies: - involve many parties (such as governments, international organisations, the private
Confidentiality - Human Rights Act 1998, Article 8
Right to respect for private and family life 1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. 2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society and is the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection o
How to address health inequalities in a fair or just manner?
Health inequalities are the unjust and avoidable differences in people's health across the population and between specific population groups. Health inequalities go against the principles of social justice because they are avoidable. They do not occur randomly or by chance, but are socially determined by circumstances largely beyond an individual's control. These circumstances disadvantage people and limit their chance to live longer, healthier lives. Here are the factors tha