The phrase "approve the procedure" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to indicate that someone has given their consent or agreement to a specific process or method.
Example: "Before we can move forward with the project, we need to approve the procedure outlined in the proposal."
Alternatives: "authorize the procedure" or "sanction the procedure."
The US Food and Drug Administration met last year to deliberate over sanctioning the assisted reproductive technology but has yet to approve the procedure.
In an e-mail on June 11 , 2008 an agency official told Schrot that the F.D.A. could not approve the procedure without first seeing data from animal studies, showing how it worked and that it was safe.
And it lowers the threshold for the physician to approve the procedure by removing the words "substantially or irredeemably" from the law — giving the doctor significantly more leeway in determining whether the pregnancy would harm a woman mentally or physically.
She later became the first African-American woman in the United States to be board-certified in high-risk obstetrics, and as one of the first in the United States to use chorionic villus sampling for prenatal genetic testing, she was among a group of practitioners whose work persuaded the FDA to approve the procedure.
In most places, save Switzerland, doctors must approve the procedure.Several other jurisdictions are passing laws, or contemplating doing so.
The agency backed off of this position, but replaced it with a requirement that a single surgeon approve the procedure.
The court's only role will be to review and approve the procedures used by the government in the surveillance after it has been conducted.
At the time the blog post was published, only the House of Commons had approved the procedure; still pending is approval from the House of Lords.
The Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of Vanderbilt University approved the procedure applied in these experiments.
The body, which licenses IVF clinics and embryo research, approved the procedure after holding public consultation.
