Buyers beware

Rader, N. (1998). Green Buyers Beware A Critical Review of Green Electricity Products. Washington, DC Public Citizen. 

Methaqualone is being widely abused by youths in this country. Recently, in the northeast, some abusers were stricken with severe side effects, including bloody urine and gastrointestinal cramps. The tablets were found to be of clandestine manufacture.They contained fairly large amounts of impurities from a poor synthesis. The impurities were o-toluidine, o-aminobenzoic acid, and o-methyl acetanilide—again proving the old proverb Let the buyer beware. ... 

These speculations lead me to argue that we should consider the possibility of a no-liability or buyer-beware liability regime. I believe the voluntary development and dissemination of information by firms about the consequences of exposure to their products would be much greater than it is today because consumers would realize... 

It also remains a disturbing fact that there are some service companies around the world regularly offering entirely unsuitable chemical treatments. These products may utilize inferior materials, be blended under poor quality manufacturing conditions, or be formulated incorrectly, and thus are not fit-for-purpose. Let the buyer beware ... 

Under the For Sale sign on the old rusty truck, the farmer had written the words caveat emptor, meaning let the buyer beware. ... 

There is now enough valid scientific research supporting the role of acidity in poor health that companies are introducing specific alkaline formulas to supplement our food choices and restore pH balance in our bodies. I don t want to sound like a broken record, but it really is a case of buyer beware. There are good products and bad products, and it can be difficult to know the difference unless you research particular brands. If I see amazing claims that are not backed by credible and verifiable data and research, I am skeptical. 

When applied to real-life problems, however, there is little experience reported using the frequentist prior approach in the literature. Gastonguay et al. (1999) used prior information from adults to estimate the model parameters in a PopPK analysis in children. Simonsen et al. (2000) used prior information to estimate the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of epirubicin in rats. So, while it appears that using prior information may be useful in certain circumstances, but caveat emp-tor applies at the present time—let the buyer beware. Gisleskog, Karlsson, and Beal conclude that considerable care must be taken with the use of a frequentist prior. That would seem good advice. 

It goes almost without saying that one should view cancer personally and should anticipate its eventuality, whether in oneself, family members, or Mends. The cancer victim, unfortunately, is too often a pawn in a vast money-making machine. The available information is conflicting, calling for discernment or buyer beware caution — with the poor and noninsured mostly forsaken. The seeking out of preferred modes of treatment reduces to an impasse between medical orthodoxy and alternative medicine. Inasmuch as medical orthodoxy is as close as one s family physician — and the success rates for conventional cancer treatments are too often dismal — the emphasis here will be otherwise on alternative therapies. 

Reaves, J. (2000, Januaiy 6). If you choose the herbal life, it is buyer beware. Times Daily (n.d.). 

Buyer beware risdc and choke in consumer studies... 

Buyer beware. Equipment s Conformity in Question Some manufacturer s focus on the directives essential requirements as a way to get around the safety/EMC rules (standards). In these cases there is no presumption of conformity. ... 

R. Y. Gordon, T. Cooperman, W. Obermeyer, D. J. Becker (2010) Marked variability of mona-colin levels in commercial red yeast rice products buyer beware Arch. Intern. Med., 170, 1722-1727. 

Products liability developed from English common law. As the industrial revolution of the late 1800s placed new products on the market, the social and legal climate at that time gave them an esteemed position. The legal concept was caveat emptor— let the buyer beware. Manufacturers and suppliers ignored complaints about a product. The law held... 

COPII association with ER membranes (Stroud et al, 2003). Furthermore, it should be noted that in the case of Sari the GTP-restricted protein has been the microinjected protein of choice not because it is the right mutant protein but because it is easier to isolate than the GDP-restricted mutant in stable, high activity form. As a final buyer beware note, the reader is reminded that small GTPase are in general lipid modified and that these modifications typically are not produced when isolating the recombinant, his-tagged protein from E. coli. The experimenter hopes that the injected cell will do what E. coli did not. 

Caveat emptor is the Latin phrase for Let the buyer beware. When news is released that a school or school district is preparing to conduct an assessment, it is likely that vendors and other private entities will contact the school in an effort to sell their products (guides, assessment software, etc.). What consideration should the assessment team make when evaluating the products that may be helpful to the assessment ... 

Buyer beware If you don t know which flow pattern is going to develop in your silo, or the possible consequences of designing for the wrong one, retain the services of a silo expert who can advise you. 

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