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Social planning, to which the Australian Assistance Plan was committed, demands strong administrative infrastructure support. This paper argues that an understanding of the purpose of social planning was lacking in that infrastructure; that the method of implementation by the Social Welfare Commission and the Department of Social Security produced only uncertainty in the minds of regional councils; and that, in the result, the initially stated goals of the plan were compromised.

Prior to Confederation, food control legislation in Canada consisted of only a few simple laws governing the quality, grading, packing and inspection of certain staple foods. The Inland Revenue Act of 1875 provided the first real control in Canada over adulteration of liquor, foods and drugs. Since then, food legislation has evolved in scope and complexity as the industries involved have developed, as consumers have become better informed, and as scientific advances have provided a sound basis for regulations. Present regulations under the Food and Drugs Act are intended to give consumers broad protection against health hazards and fraud in the production, manufacture, labelling, packaging, advertising, and sale of foods. This principle is well illustrated by present requirements for the control of pesticide residues, chemical additives, and the addition of vitamins to foods. In today's era of rapid technological change, application of current scientific knowledge to the food industry obviously involves the possibility of hazards to health. Regulatory agencies with responsibility for food safety must, therefore, fully utilize scientific knowledge in order to reduce the risks involved to a minimum.

R. Chapman et al. ; 8 págs.; 6 figs.; 1 tab. ; The neutron-rich S39 nucleus has been studied using binary grazing reactions produced by the interaction of a 215-MeV beam of S36 ions with a thin Pb208 target. The magnetic spectrometer, PRISMA, and the γ-ray array, CLARA, were used in the measurements. Gamma-ray transitions of the following energies were observed: 339, 398, 466, 705, 1517, 1656, and 1724 keV. Five of the observed transitions have been tentatively assigned to the decay of excited states with spins up to (11/2-). The results of a state-of-the-art shell-model calculation of the level scheme of S39 using the SDPF-U effective interaction are also presented. The systematic behavior of the excitation energy of the first 11/2- states in the odd-A isotopes of sulfur and argon is discussed in relation to the excitation energy of the first excited 2+ states of the adjacent even-A isotopes. The states of S39 that have the components in their wave functions corresponding to three neutrons in the 1f7/2 orbital outside the N=20 core have also been discussed within the context of the 0 ω shell-model calculations presented here. ©2016 American Physical Society ; This work was supported in part by the EPSRC (UK) and by the European Union under Contract No. RII3-CT- 2004-506065. Five of us (D.O., M.B., A.H., K.K., and A.P.) acknowledge financial support from the EPSRC. Z.M.W. acknowledges support from ORSAS and from the University of the West of Scotland. A.N.D. acknowledges support from the STFC. A.J. acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación under Contracts No. FPA2007-66069 and No. FPA2009-13377-C02-02. Zs.D. acknowledges financial support from OTKA under Project No. K100835. S.S. acknowledges support from the Croatian Science Foundation under Project No. 7194. The contribution of the accelerator and target-fabrication staff at the INFN Legnaro National Laboratory is gratefully acknowledged. ; Peer Reviewed