In almost all cases, spokespeople for the low-scoring hospitals and the councils that inspected them said the hospital administrations had taken steps to improve food safety.
"If I didn't know where the collection came from, I would probably say it could have come from a royal person," said David Warren, who headed a Christie's auction house team that inspected the jewellery.
Later, Gap was the driving force behind the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, an industry group that inspected all 587 factories from which its members source and provided safety training to 1.1 million factory managers and workers.
In addition, the students, sometimes through lengthy sit-ins, pressured their officials to create and finance an independent monitoring group, the Worker Rights Consortium, that inspected factories to make sure they complied with the universities' codes.
Mr. Zilinskas, who was a member of the United Nations team that inspected Iraqi biological research and production facilities in 1994, said the sale of such literature deeply disturbed him.
Next, the research team observed live orchid mantises in the field, counting the number of insects that were attracted to the mantis "flower". They compared this to the number of insects that inspected an actual flower in the same amount of time.
