Only four months ago Davey announced that Ofgem, the energy regulator had been given new powers to demand access to information, inspect premises and impose unlimited fines for those who break the law.
"Trading standards officers work hard to ensure that products pose no risk to consumers, but as their budgets are slashed, their ability to identify problems, inspect premises and prosecute wrongdoers has become severely limited," she said.
The adult index was calculated as the number of adult female mosquitoes captured divided by number of inspected premises.
Monitoring safety and quality of medicines; investigating safety issues – using legal powers to inspect premises, to remove, test and recall products, and to restrain misleading and fraudulent practices.
Briefly, all the water holding containers of inspected premises were classified according to type, source of water, volume, location, the presence of vegetation, the presence of larvae control measures and the presence of a lid.
In a pilot project, this approach reduced the A. aegypti population in a 3-month period from 16% to 2%, as measured by the premises index, which is the percentage of inspected premises found to have containers with A. aegypti larvae or pupae (13 ).
Capture activities were completed for all rooms, including the basement, within a maximum of 10 minutes for each inspected premise.
The Directorate for Health and Social Affairs organized a system audit of the manufacturer on 12 15 April 200202 by studying documents, interviewing selected personnel and inspecting the premises, including microbiological sampling of tap water, swabbing of different places along the production lane and culturing of stored and packed samples of the product.
This includes discussion of numbers of and conditions for locally-engaged staff in the Embassy premises of each country and visits to inspect these premises.
He added that the department would inspect the premises again soon.
