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Administration (FDA), the critical blood thinner contained a counterfeit ingredient that mimicked the real Using sophisticated magic resonance imaging tests, the FDA uncovered that as much as 20% of the product?s active ingredient was an imitation. In a fast globalising world, how can countries be sure that products that arrive on their shores are safe? Can WTO member states unilaterally adopt new regulations that lay down characteristics or related processes and production methods for toys? The question arises because technical regulations and standards implicate international trade law and human rights law. On one hand, technical regulations and standards can operate as barriers to trade and negatively impact consumer product preferences, quality expectations and price options. Technical regulations and standards relating to toy quality and safety, even if not discriminatory ?de jure? or ?de facto? may create obstacles to trade by the fact that these standards and regulations vary from one country to another. Assuming the 153 members that make up the WTO decide to create their own toy safety regulations and standards, a toy manufacturer in China, for example, would be faced with some 153 regulations to ply with. The result would be loss of economies of scale. On other hand, it is increasingly recognised that health and safety regulations are at the core of government responsibility. Governments have the sovereign right and the responsibility to protect their citizens from harm. In Resolution A/RES/54/165 adopted in 1999, the United Nations General Assembly noted that ?while globalisation, by its impact on, ?inter alia?, the role of the state may affect human rights, the promotion and protection of all human rights is, first and foremost, the responsibility of the state?.15 Resolution A/RES/54/165 also emphasized ?the need to analyse the consequences of globalisation for the full enjoyment of all human rights?.16 Regarding the health and safety of children, Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) stipulates that ?[i]n all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration?.17 The