Re: Technical and Spiritual Development

From: Jonathan Silverlight (jsilverlight_at_spam.merseia.fsnet.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 18:36:34 +0000

In message <5kSSd.20212$u87.2108@bignews6.bellsouth.net>, Terrell Miller
<millerto@bellsouth.net> writes
>William Mook wrote:
>
>>>"A law" for something that you think will be administered
>> universally,
>>
>>>across all countries and cultures?
>> Yes. Applied to the makers of the drug. Recall medicines are
>> universally regulated in their manufacture.
>
>ROTFLMAO
>
>which is why Americans drive into Canada to buy drugs that are not
>approved for use in humans in the US.
>
>Does the phrase "flu shot" mean anything at all to you, idiot?
>
>>>Who exactly is going to pass and enforce *a* law, Bill?
>> The same people who regulate the manufacture of drugs in the
>> international market today.
>
><sigh>
>
>here's how international business works, Bill: each country has its own
>laws and regulations. Some countries join organizations or trade groups
>(the EC being a prime example, NAFTA is another) that in turn have laws
>and regulations.
>
>Except for a few special-case situations like Kyoto or merchant marine
>law, there *are no* international regulations for goods and services.
>It's whatever you and the individual country can work out.
>

>
>And in Country A' they *can't* sell the product because it violates
>that country's product purity standards or something.
>
>Example: did you know that Coca-Cola is made with saccharine and/or
>aspartame in some countries? Why? Because they *can* in some places and
>it saves the Coca-Cola Company money.
>
>Again, real real simple for you Bill: *there is no international
>regulation agency*

There most certainly are international agencies, such as the Office
International des Epizooties (OIE, http://www.oie.int/), and when they
set standards those standards are respected.
But as you point out (and we in the UK are learning !) there aren't
international standards for things such as food additives. 

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