Furthermore, reduced testing of finishers from the sub-population consisting of pigs from non-controlled housing might even be considered, if conducted in conjunction with a proportionate sampling scheme and a risk-based wildlife surveillance programme where applicable.
A cross-sectional study was conducted from June to September 2010 with a proportionate stratified sampling of 222 parturient women using a structured questionnaire.
The procedures were sensible and proportionate, and they were conducted with a politeness and respect.
Every decision made was based on the information available at the time and conducted within ethical, legal, necessary and proportionate frameworks.
Its surveillance operations were only conducted if they had legal approval and were proportionate to the crime under investigation, he added.
The need for some form of external regulation and ethical review is not contested, but this should be proportionate to the risks involved and conducted with sufficient expertise.
But Judge McKenna, reflecting on how the case had been conducted, described the campaigners' approach as "perfectly reasonable" and "proportionate" even in the areas where their legal claim had not been successful.
The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said that an independent and effective investigation, conducted by non-military officials, needs to ask whether the army used proportionate force, whether the forces were trained to cope with this type of event, whether they were correctly equipped, what open-fire regulations were given to the soldiers, and whether alternative options were considered.
We conducted two-stage cluster sampling: the first stage consisted of probability-proportionate-to-size sampling, and the second stage consisted of simple random sampling.
This week's report criticised the second investigation by the Met, which again "failed to conduct a fair and proportionate investigation", and recommended a misconduct hearing.
