To determine which factories need to be inspected, agency investigators must consult two incompatible databases, one of which lists 3,000 foreign drug plants exporting to the United States and the other 6,800.
OFDC remains the most commonly used certifying agency, but other certifying bodies and their labels have proliferated as organic farms choose an inspecting agency according to the export destination of their produce, according to Xie.
The ease with which Moody's side-stepped profisions of the 2006 law — which also gave the S.E.C. more authority to inspect the agencies, among other measures — has some critics arguing that Washington is now simply pushing a stronger version of old and ineffective medicine.
His father retired as the director of internal audit for the New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and is now a consultant for agencies inspecting institutions for the disabled.
Right now our agencies inspecting foreign mail shipped through the global post cannot answer these questions.
At several stages during construction, he said, the modules are inspected by an independent inspection agency to ensure that the house is being constructed in accordance applicable building codes.
We requested the inspection report and the following interchange of documents between the inspection agency and the inspected organization until the inspection was finalized.
After more than a year, the two agencies inspected the shelter two weeks ago; that inspection came only after a reporter's series of telephone inquiries stretching over many months.
Given the cost and logistics of inspecting each company, the agency is shifting toward a more risk-based approach that would use vast quantities of data to pinpoint areas of risk and deploy resources accordingly.
Iranian leaders are deeply concerned about the IAEA inspection regime, and are afraid that Iran will meet the same fate as Iraq's, right before its invasion in 2003, when the agency demanded inspecting even Saddam Hussein's palaces.
