If a package makes an official suspicious, for instance if it is leaking or has protruding wires, it will be inspected, industry sources said.
The federal Food and Drug Administration the world's foremost regulator of drug safety refuses to inspect the cottage industry for fear of legitimising it.
On the federal level, before the spill, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration hadn't inspected Freedom Industries, and the E.P.A. seems to have left matters entirely to state officials.
SAM is a non-destructive technique used extensively throughout the microelectronics industry to inspect a bonded interface for the visualisation of delamination and cracking.
It costs money for agricultural industries to inspect the food they produce.
The industry inspects itself, reporting its own safety lapses to ward off fines.
Since 2007, Apple had built one of the most extensive auditing programs in the electronics industry, inspecting over 800 facilities.
Of the 174 auditors inspected by their industry's newish regulator, almost half have been deemed to have some trouble doing their job satisfactorily.
- It sets strict safety standards, inspects private (yikes!) industry manufacturing plants, imposes fines (e.g., Genzyme just paid $175M) for unsafe practices, and can ask prosecutors to indict violators who, upon conviction, could go to jail.
The river of milk in America brings with it a river of ground beef made from dairy cows, a river that is almost impossible to inspect adequately in a deregulated industry.
