Dr. Portier said that among the risk factors for lead poisoning were homes built before 1978, homes with lead plumbing, and some imported items with lead in them, including toys and jewelry that may have avoided inspection.
In 1995, the company paid a $100,000 fine after it was caught switching license plates to avoid inspections.
The allegations include the underreporting of catches to the South African authorities, the falsifying of documents and the nighttime unloading of vessels in South Africa to avoid inspections, according to an indictment unsealed yesterday in Federal District Court in Manhattan.
To avoid inspections, quarantines and other procedures required for bringing livestock into the United States, Mr. Villarreal had trainers sneak the horses back across the border, herding them just after dawn through the Rio Grande.
Lax regulation in China was a contributing factor: the contaminated products may have been mislabelled to avoid inspections, but such inspections were rare in any case.So was it the industrialised, globalised, outsourced food-production system that killed thousands of pets?
Simultaneously, the White House released a 22-page document titled "A Decade of Deception and Defiance," which lists Mr. Hussein's efforts to avoid inspections and to import banned equipment for making nuclear and biological weapons, and work on missiles that Iraq agreed not to conduct as part of the cease-fire that ended the gulf war in 1991.
New York Apple, which also operates tours in Brooklyn, has been cited by the city and state for a wide range of misdeeds, like switching license plates on buses to avoid inspections, violating building and environmental codes at its garage and driving off its authorized routes.
In addition to providing training for Afghanistan's Customs Department, the additional agents are to help with the transition from military to civilian control of border crossings, where Afghan officials and others say that bribes are often used to avoid inspections of black-market goods, including drugs.
Iran will avoid inspections as much as it is possible without sanctions being reimposed.
While the United States prods other countries to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), requiring international inspections, Israel refuses to sign the NPT, thereby avoiding inspections.
