The NSF stamp on a dietary supplement product means it was tested for quality and safety.
He pledged that exports would be subjected to testing for quality and safety that met international standards.
Reporting this week, the watchdog said the trust was failing on all but three of eight national standards for quality and safety.
Inevitably the role of executive nurses, whose remit frequently includes responsibility for quality and safety, has become the object of increased scrutiny.
CQC inspectors, who made a series of unannounced visits to the service in April after persistent complaints from staff and local MPs, found Serco was failing to meet four of the mandatory standards for quality and safety.
"I would say the oversight for quality and safety is much tighter outside of research," said Peter Pronovost, who directs the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
ROLLIN FAIRBANKS DAVID MAYER Columbia, Md., Oct. 16, 2013 Dr. Fairbanks is an emergency physician and safety engineer and Dr. Mayer is an anesthesiologist and vice president for quality and safety at MedStar Health, a hospital system.
"Domestic players will be ferocious competitors," predicts Derek Sulger at Lunar Capital, a private-equity firm in Shanghai.For now, Western firms enjoy a lucrative reputation for quality and safety.
Toyota interrupted its brief press conference, which introduced new euro-market hybrids for its Toyota and Lexus divisions, to apologize to its European customers for quality and safety problems.
But regulators asked the company on Wednesday to suspend production to allow them to conduct an on-site investigation, because their inquiry "includes concerns for quality and safety across the corporate entity," the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said.
Christopher Longhurst, the CIO and associate chief medical officer for quality and safety at UC California San Diego Health and a coauthor of the EHR note length study, explained that organizations that operate under risk-based payment models (in which the volume of services less directly influences payment) had shorter average note lengths.
