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Books and Book Chapters

"Tobacco and the Rules of Law," Chapter 32, Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th Edition (2009).

"Health and Safety Policy," Chapter 39, Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th Edition (2009).

"The Food and Drug Administration," Chapter 39 of the Cato Handbook for Congress, 108 Congress.

Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It, Michael F. Cannon and Michael Tanner (Cato Institute, September 2005)

Cato Studies

"Avoiding Medicare's Pharmaceutical Trap," by Doug Bandow, Policy Analysis no. 556, November 30, 2005

"Treating Doctors as Drug Dealers: The DEA's War on Prescription Painkillers," by Ronald T. Libby, Policy Analysis no. 545, June 6, 2005

"Health Care Regulation: A $169 Billion Hidden Tax," by Christopher J. Conover, Policy Analysis no. 527, October 4, 2004

"Drug Reimportation: The Free Market Solution," by Roger Pilon, Policy Analysis no. 521, August 4, 2004

"Demonizing Drugmakers: The Political Assault on the Pharmaceutical Industry," by Doug Bandow, Policy Analysis no. 475, May 8, 2003

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Articles and Newsletters

"Reforming FDA Policy: Lessons from the AIDS Experience," by Joanna E. Siegel and Marc J. Roberts, Regulation Magazine 14:4, Fall 1991.

Opinion and Commentary

"Sugar Taxes Are Unfair And Unhealthy," by Patrick Basham, U.S. News & World Report, March 30, 2012

"McDonald's Happy Meal Move, Campbell's Soup Choice Show Absurdity of Some Government Intervention," by Walter Olson, New York Daily News, July 28, 2011

"Back Off. It's My Plate.," by Walter Olson, Daily Caller, June 3, 2011

"President Obama's War on Fun," by Gene Healy, DC Examiner, May 16, 2011

"McDonald's Suit over Happy Meal Toys by California Mom Monet Parham New Low in Responsible Parenting," by Walter Olson, New York Daily News, December 15, 2010

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Legal Briefs

IMS Health v. Sorrell, July 14, 2009 (PDF, 234 KB)

Events

"Drug Reimportation: The Free-Market Solution," September 20, 2004 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

"Resolved: Congress Should Remove the Ban on Drug Reimportation," March 30, 2004 [Policy Forum]

"Drug Reimportation: Time for a Free Market?," October 31, 2003 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

Multimedia

Keeping Food Legal featuring Baylen Linnekin (May 14, 2012) [Daily Podcast, 10:55]

Food Safety and Bernie Madoff featuring Peter Van Doren (January 4, 2011) [Daily Podcast, 11:03]

Walter Olson discusses the food safety bill on Hearst-Argyle Television (January 4, 2011) [Media Highlights - TV, 01:27]

Blessed Are the Cheesemakers featuring Walter Olson (December 1, 2010) [Daily Podcast, 07:11]

Walter Olson discusses the egg recall on WGAL's 6 AM News (September 9, 2010) [Media Highlights - TV, 01:40]

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