Such techniques are "outside the scope of most regulatory and self-regulatory" regimes, says João Breda of the World Health Organisation.Munch awayEven where the state lays down the law, product-pushers get through.
Anyone who values child labor laws, product safety standards, health and safety regulations and countless other human rights we take for granted ought to be appalled at your Labor Day editorial, which smirks, "if you get choked up on Labor Day, you've probably just been eating too fast".
Welcome to America's civil asset forfeiture laws, another product of law enforcement's failed war on drugs, updated for the twenty-first century.
(There ought to be a law against product names with more than 15 syllables).
It offers a 45-page analysis of one issue -- how antitrust law on product "tying" should apply to the case.
The new law — the product of a rare partnership between gun control advocates and the National Rifle Association — addresses a glaring problem.
Heinz Dieterich, a Mexican-German academic who until recently was a prominent supporter of Mr Chávez, called the law the product of "hallucinations".
Contrary to New York law, many product labels have promised donations to a specific charity without the charity's knowledge or consent.
Under California law, a product cannot be marketed as frozen yogurt unless it is made from milk that is fermented with certain bacteria, mixed off-site rather than in stores, and sold with its ingredients prominently displayed.
Several also used the time to criticize Obama's healthcare law, the product of what they said was similar overreach.
Not only are laws a product of private values, but laws also drive and influence private attitudes.
