"One of our pillars is to make sure we have state of the art, science-based dietary guidelines," says Dr. Robert Post, Deputy Director of Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion at the USDA.
Months later, in January 2003, Larry D. Thompson, then the deputy United States attorney general, issued guidelines for federal prosecutors to help determine when to prosecute a company caught up in wrongdoing.
In August, Deputy Attorney General James Cole issued guidelines for all U.S. attorneys, saying it's "not an efficient use of federal resources to focus [medical marijuana] enforcement efforts on seriously ill individuals".
In June 2011 and again in August 2013, Deputy Attorney General James Cole issued guidelines for all U.S. attorneys stressing that it is "not an efficient use of federal resources to focus [medical marijuana] enforcement efforts on seriously ill individuals".
The National Osteoporosis Society's deputy chief executive Jackie Parrington believes national guidelines should be introduced to regulate screening firms.
On Thursday, she and her deputy, Ethan Bronner, circulated a memo with guidelines on how to distinguish Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia from bin Laden's Al Qaeda.
Although the F.D.A. had reviewed other studies, only the two multigenerational ones met its guidelines for determining safety for human consumption, said Dr. Mitchell Cheeseman, deputy director of the agency's Office of Food Additive Safety.
John Martin, a deputy director of the Transportation Department, said federal guidelines required wider streets in this area and added that the $7 million project, part of a major water tunnel improvement, is not intended to increase traffic.
In response to widespread public criticism that the government has been too lenient with executives responsible for corporate crime, Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates issued tough new guidelines last year for federal prosecutors.
Dr Gillian Leng, deputy chief executive of NICE, said: "This guideline is not about offering free Caesareans for all on the NHS.
