Two Congressional committees have asked the Food and Drug Administration for more information about inspections of plants making the active ingredient of heparin.
Mr. Stupak's committee and Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, both sent letters to the agency on Thursday, asking for more information about inspections of plants making heparin.
The challenge was brought by the New York State Restaurant Association and 44 individual restaurants, which charged that providing public information about inspections, as well as the department's new guidelines for citing and classifying violations, were illegal and unfair.
Suddenly, MSHA wouldn't release even basic information about inspections and investigations.
Even the mining companies were unhappy, because they were being denied information about inspections that historically helped them determine whether they should contest violations.
Inspection personnel provided the customer with information about the inspection process and requested information about the regulator removal procedure and potential mercury contamination in their home.
Investigators for the Government Accountability Office found that, in many of its functions, the F.D.A. was unable to provide even basic information about its inspection responsibilities.
And Ofsted declined to comment on how information about the inspection could have been leaked, or say whether it was investigating, confirming only that Thetford had received its official pre-inspection notice on 30 June.
Charles G. Moerdler, a member of the authority's board who sits on the Long Island Rail Road Committee, wrote on Wednesday to Helena Williams, president of the railroad, seeking information about the inspection process and the protocols for caring for the station's elevators.
This enables a feedback to make quicker production and design decisions, provides updated information about the inspection processes to be shared and used in the new development processes, and permits the simultaneous work in the preparation of the inspection processes themselves.
