Consumer advocacy groups such as Public Citizen or Food and Water Watch maintain that the safety of irradiated food is not proven, in particular long-term studies are still lacking, and strongly oppose the use of the technology.

Public Citizen ) maintain that the best alternative to food irradiation to reduce pathogens is in good agricultural practices.

* Remarks by Mark Worth, Public Citizen, to the FDA, Jan. 12, 2005

This has led to a class-action lawsuit by those harmed by the use of fluoroquinolones, as well as action by the consumer advocate group, Public Citizen.

Partly as a result of the efforts of Public Citizen, the FDA ordered black box warnings on all fluoroquinolones, advising consumers of their possible toxic effects on tendons.

By August 1996, the FDA had not taken action, and the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen filed a petition with the FDA, prompting the agency to act.

In 2006, Public Citizen, supported by the Illinois Attorney General, renewed its demand of ten years prior for black box warnings by filing a third petition requesting such changes be made.

When the FDA failed to respond to these two petitions as required by law, Public Citizen, in January 2008, filed suit to compel the FDA to respond to their 2006 petition.

Aided by the Public Citizen Litigation Group, the historian Stanley Kutler, who has written several books about Nixon and Watergate, sued for release of the transcripts of the testimony.

* Public Works Agency-Public Works Industry Social Network including Municipal Contractors, Municipalities and Citizen Engagement

However, the Committee of Public Safety was seen as an “ emergency ” government, and the rights guaranteed by the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and the new constitution were suspended under its control.

Among those represented were Ralph Nader's Public Citizen organization ( Medea Benjamin and Linda Chavez-Thompson ), the Brazilian NGO Ibase ( Cândido Grzybowski and Moema Miranda ), the Brazilian association of entrepreneurs for citizenship CIVES ( Oded Grajew, founder of the WSF ), the Brazilian Commission on Justice and Peace ( Francisco Whitaker ), ATTAC ( Christophe Aguiton ), CRID France ( Gustave Massiah ), Focus on the Global South Thailand ( Nicola Bullard ), and the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World ( Gustavo Marín ).

Current projects include Arts and Ecology, Citizen Power, Connected Communities, Design and Society, Education, Public Services, Social Brain, and Technology in a Cold Climate.

Soon after the FDA cleared the device, several members of Public Citizen stated in a letter to the editor of the medical journal Neuropsychopharmacology that the FDA seemed to have based its decision on a post-hoc analysis that did not establish the effectiveness of rTMS for the treatment of depression.

The Department also includes a Volunteers in Public Safety ( VIPS ) civilian volunteer team and a Community Emergency Response Team ( CERT ), both part of the Citizen Corps organization.

There is also a planning commission, as well as a Park Advisory / Urban Forestry Commission and Citizen Traffic and Public Safety Committee.

This controversy garnered regional and national attention, with anti-privatization non-profits such as Public Citizen noting the debate and outcome.

The petitioners include Public Citizen, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, and San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace.

Public Citizen is a non-profit, consumer rights advocacy group based in Washington, D. C., United States, with a branch in Austin, Texas.

Public Citizen was founded by Ralph Nader in 1971, headed for 26 years by Joan Claybrook, and is now headed by Robert Weissman.

Public Citizen advocates for the public interest before all three branches of the United States federal government.

Its five divisions include: Congress Watch ; Energy ; Global Trade Watch ; the Health Research Group ; and Public Citizen Litigation Group, a nationally prominent public interest law firm founded by Alan Morrison and known for its Supreme Court and appellate practice.

Broadly speaking, Public Citizen favors robust corporate accountability and strong government regulation, particularly in the areas of transport, healthcare, and nuclear power.

Founded by Ralph Nader in 1971, Public Citizen is funded by dues and contributions from its members and supporters, foundation grants, and publication sales and does not accept government or corporate funds.

Public Citizen runs with the slogan of “ Corporations have their lobbyists in Washington D. C.

Exim is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail.

* Public service agreement, details the aims and objectives of UK government departments for a three-year period

Its Carbon Neutral Public Sector Initiative aims to offset the greenhouse gas emissions of an initial group of six governmental agencies by 2012.

Since the election, the UPP have pursued their anti-corruption aims by passing a trio of government legislation: the Prevention of Corruption Act, the Freedom of Information Act and the Integrity in Public Life Act.

Public Health 2. 0 is the term given to a movement within public health that aims to make the field more accessible to the general public and more user-driven.

The Faculty of Public Health and Policy aims to improve global health through research, teaching and the provision of advice in the areas of health policy, health systems and services, and individual, social and environmental influences on health.

HydrixOS is a project that aims to develop a free operating system published under the GNU General Public License.

* United Nations Public Administration Network ( UNPAN ): A body which aims to establish an Internet-based network that links regional and national institutions devoted to public administration.

Her Crown Minerals ( Protection of Public Conservation Land Listed in the Fourth Schedule ) Amendment Bill, which aims to strengthen the protection for national parks, was drawn from the member's ballot in April 2010.

People Power released their Public Schools policy on 13 September 2006 which aims to target what it calls " one-size-fits-all schooling " in Victoria.

NESTA's Public Services Lab aims to test out radical theories and produce practical programmes to demonstrate how innovative schemes can improve public services and benefit local communities.

Public sector bodies can use standard marketing approaches to improve the promotion of their relevant services and organizational aims.

The Vereniging voor Bestuurskunde ( Dutch Association for Public Administration ) aims to play a distinct role in the debate about the developments of public administration in the Netherlands and in more international contexts.

The Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois publishes a " flash-index " that aims to measure expected economic growth in Illinois.

* 1984 – " We begin bombing in five minutes "-United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.

He suggested " Pioneer " as the name of the probe since " the Army had already launched and orbited the Explorer satellite and their Public Information Office was identifying the Army as ' Pioneers in Space ,'" and by adopting the name the Air Force would " make a ' quantum jump ' as to who really the ' Pioneers in space.

The character of Jesus Quintana was inspired, in part, by a performance the Coens had seen John Turturro give in 1988 at the Public Theater in a play called Mi Puta Vida in which he played a pederast-type character, " so we thought, let's make Turturro a pederast.

The studio's next gangster film, The Public Enemy, made James Cagney arguably the studio's new top star, and Warner Bros. was now convinced to make more gangster films.

Public X. 25 networks were not required to make use of NSAP addressing, but, to support OSI CONS, were required to carry the NSAP addresses and other ITU-T specified DTE facilities transparently from DTE to DTE.

* National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases ( NIDDK ) One of the 17 institutes that make up the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the Public Health Service.

Air Canada was completely privatized by 1989, although the Air Canada Public Participation Act continued to make certain requirements of the airline.

The following schools make up the Essex County Public Schools system:

The 1908 county atlas shows North East Public Road two blocks east of Park Avenue which would make it North 13th Street ).

You may make your reservation by calling the City of Laurel Public Works Department at 628-4796.

To make payments on the Loup Project bonds, the Loup River Public Power District had to find a market for its electricity.

Public interest groups frequently intervene in cases to make arguments on how to interpret the Charter.

Four schools make up Bethel Public Schools, including upper elementary, lower elementary, middle school and high school.

During the mid-1930s many local families had to accept government relief in order to make ends meet, although the Public Works Administration and the Works Progress provided some residents with jobs on street and water works.

Benjamin Franklin invested a town in Massachusetts with a collection of books that the town voted to make available to all free of charge, forming the first Public Library.

They act in an official police capacity only when called into service by the State of Alaska, which has a broad statute governing citizen's arrests, which is why Alaska has unarmed Village Public Safety Officers ( VPSO's ) all of whom are fully academy-trained, employed by local tribal non-profit corporations and are deputized by the Commissioner of Public Safety to make misdemeanor non-traffic arrests and charge for violations.

Public concern arose over the ability of British industry to make the best of this breakthrough.

* June 27 – John Lydon and Keith Levene of Public Image Ltd make an appearance on The Tomorrow Show with host Tom Snyder.

In 2005, WTO members reached agreement on an amendment to the TRIPS Agreement to make permanent the temporary waiver contained in the August 30 WTO Decision, which itself fulfilled the requirement of Paragraph 6 of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health of November 14, 2001.

Further, " ach member shall have a broad, royalty-free license to all intellectual property rights in the UnitedLinux Software, entitling each member to " use, copy, modify, distribute, market, advertise, sell, offer for sale, sublicense ... in any manner the Software, including the rights to make derivative works of the Software, to provide access to the Source Code and / or Object Code to any third party, to incorporate the Software into other products or bundle the Software with other products for its own business purposes and any other unlimited right of exploitation "; existing open source licenses, such as the GNU General Public License, also continued to apply.

The Public Record Office ( PRO ) of the United Kingdom is one of the three organisations that make up the National Archives ( the others are the Historical Manuscripts Commission, and the Office of Public Sector Information ).