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  • Beautiful benchtops: How should we protect our workers?

    … stone. This exposure leads to silica-related health issues in stonemasons and construction workers. Applying Australian … New Zealand workers who’ve fabricated engineered stone in the past 15 years will develop silica-related diseases.  … Registry, and mandating reporting . Unfortunately, action in New Zealand (NZ) is lagging behind Australia, leaving our …
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  • Potential new regulatory options for e-cigarettes/ANDS in NZ

    … E-cigarette usage is growing in NZ and around the world but the scientific evidence-base … The health-based policy experience is also minimal. In this blog post we outline some of the possible regulatory … as medicinal products) is that it will slow innovation in the market and may leave the field to the tobacco …
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  • Likely rise in invasive strep infections in NZ requires a strategy

    … is a common cause of sore throats and skin infections in children. In rare cases the bacteria can invade deeper into the body, … numerous high-income countries reporting increases in cases of iGAS, with children under the age of 10 the most …
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  • Mind the gap: Associate Health Minister’s actions conflict with Ministry advice, align with tobacco industry lobbying

    … by tobacco companies to allow sales of these products. In this Briefing, we examine Ministry of Health advice, … previously strongly supported denicotinisation while in opposition. The repeal drew widespread criticism from … effects on Māori, Pacific peoples, and people living in low socioeconomic communities. They specifically noted …
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  • NZ’s COVID-19 response compared to selected other jurisdictions: Australia, Taiwan and the United States

    … Media discourse in NZ has involved comparing NZ’s COVID-19 response with a … jurisdictions, especially: Australia, Taiwan and the US. In this blog we update the data comparisons for these … with NZ having the lowest mortality rate from COVID-19 in this grouping [1]. But over the last six months we have …
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  • Analysis of a new NZ Treasury Report on soft drink tax

    … Treasury Report has already been used for this purpose in Australia. We critique this Report in this blog, with a view to preventing its misrepresentation … increasing number of countries now have a sugary drink tax in place, including the planned introduction in the UK (and a …
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  • Tobacco industry ‘transformation’ – more smoke and mirrors?

    … claims the tobacco industry is transforming. Background In recent years, some tobacco companies have claimed that … International (PMI) announced their intention to transform in 2016 and now claim to be building a ‘smoke-free future’ , … people who smoke to ‘unsmoke’ (Figure 1). Similarly, in 2020, British American Tobacco (BAT) announced its new …
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  • NZ’s Environmental Protection Authority in a muddle over weed killer

    … that the herbicide glyphosate (the active ingredient in “Roundup”) was a “probable carcinogen”. Instead the EPA … and misrepresents her own Authority’s publication. In this blog, we explain why it is important to understand … to undertake an expanded review of hazardous substances in New Zealand. Figure 1: 3D representation of a glyphosate …
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  • Why we need an Aotearoa Centre for Disease Control (CDC)

    … these efforts to improve long-term health security in Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific, and globally. The … has had an enormous impact on health and the economy in Aotearoa NZ (NZ) and globally. 1 , 2 Future pandemics are … to increase with bioweapon development from advances in biotechnology and artificial intelligence, and further …
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  • Taxing tobacco in NZ: What we know and what could be next

    … tax increases, typically at the 10% level, will end in January 2016 unless it is extended by the NZ Government. In this blog we take a timely look at what is known about tobacco tax increases in this country, what remains unknown, and what might be …
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