Dr. Bartlett and other former inspection officials said in interviews that they sympathized with Mr. Puchta to some extent because some businesses at the 14th Street market and in parts of the Bronx and Brooklyn were housed in antiquated buildings that were extremely hard to keep clean.
An examination of government documents and interviews with current and former inspection officials suggest that Mr. Puchta, who has been in charge of inspections in the New York region for more than two decades, has long had a questionable record in cracking down on safety violations.
The Xi'an Intermediate People's Court issued the sentence after convicting Yang Dacai, a former safety inspection official in Shaanxi Province, on charges of taking bribes and possessing assets of unclear origin, Chinese state-run news outlets reported Thursday morning.
But former employees, state inspection reports and lawsuits paint a disquieting picture of the care that Select provides.
Murray L. Kurzman, a former F.D.A. regional inspection chief in New York, said the bulk of his work involved writing letters, trying to get problem clinics to comply.
In support of the former notion, an inspection of the ZAS3 protein sequence revealed six putative TRAF6-binding motifs [Pro-X-Glu-X-X(Ar/Ac), Ar an aromatic and Ac an acidic residue] in the ZAS3 protein [25].
But interviews with former teammates and inspections of statistics for that year suggest that many portions of the book are incorrect, embellished or could not have happened.
The diversion "was a move to take heat away so that things didn't go over the tipping point," said Olli Heinonen, the former head of inspections for the atomic energy agency, who dealt with Iran extensively.
As the former head of inspections for the IAEA said in 2013, he said, "If there's no undeclared installation today in Iran, it will be the first time in 20 years that it doesn't have one". Iran has proven time and again that it cannot be trusted.
The Stuxnet worm might be partly responsible for delays in Iran's nuclear programme, says a former UN nuclear inspections official.
Colin Richards, Ofsted's former head of primary inspections, says school inspection is now "totally and absolutely impossible" because inspectors are instructed, by the handbook that governs their work, to make at least 102 different judgments on a school's quality in just two days of an inspection.
