I start out with the International Health Regulations (IHR) amendments. We don’t have an official version later than February 2023, so we don’t know exactly what will be voted on next month, but this is what the public has been shown.
Current law prohibits the sale of custom slaughtered and/or processed meat, only allowing its use “in the household of…[the] owner, by him and members of his household, and his non-paying guests and employees….” (21 USC 623)
The U.K. is weighing an initiative to rubber stamp drugs already sanctioned abroad, but critics warn the plan undercuts safety standards and signals a move toward the World Health Organization’s “One Health” strategy. The U.K.’s drug regulator, the Medicines and…