One vendor, identifying himself only as Mr. Wu, said some buyers saw little but trouble in the government's order.
Samples of stem fragments were purchased from vendors, identified to probable species and their stem diameter size class distributions determined using a specially designed size class chart.
Among the vendors identified in the statement from City Hall who were due payment were B&K Rentals, which built grandstands, and Robert Roman, the father-in-law of Jay Davidson, the former chief executive of Baltimore Racing Development.
First, we visited 34 of 95 (36%) drug vendors identified in the Far North Region and assembled a list of 375 available medications (Additional file 1).
The 2005 bans resulted in the highest vendor attrition rates yet: 57.9% of vendors identified in January 2005 were not in business by January 2006, and 61.4% of vendors identified in 2006 were not in business by 2007.
The proportion of vendors identified in January 2003 that were not in business by January 2004 was 31.1% (Figure 1).
Despite vendor attrition rising each year, the total number of vendors identified rose from 2005 (before the bans) to 2006 (after the bans).
The attrition rate continued to rise over time, such that January 2005, just before the bans, 45.0% of vendors identified a year earlier were no longer in business.
The websites of all vendors identified in a given year were revisited the following year to determine if they were still in business, and new vendors were identified with a similar methodology, which is described briefly here and in greater detail elsewhere.
Vendors identified six islands specifically but otherwise could not, because they bought from middlemen (the 'patron').
KB vendors identified that there is limited availability of primary literature to assess the likelihood of an interaction compelling them to rely on package inserts which are inaccurate, have large inconsistencies across countries, out-dated and do not always match with the medical literature.
