The F.D.A. is able to inspect only a tiny percentage of these imports, less than 2 percent, at the point of entry.
U.S. officials can't inspect overseas food-processing plants without the permission of foreign governments — and since the Food and Drug Administration has limited funds and manpower, it can inspect only a small percentage of imports.
The randomness in successful filtering might reflect that packet filtering operates at less than line speed, i.e. is able to inspect only a portion of content passing through a given router.
On Sept. 24, in a sign of the problem's urgency, the inspector general, whose auditors had inspected only a few laboratories so far, issued a "management alert" recommending that the agency strengthen controls over its inventories.
As SSL traffic scales, the organization is confronted with the choice of adding more appliances to keep up with demand, throttling down performance, or inspecting only a portion of traffic as determined by their appliance capacity.
The analysis, together with the testing data, demonstrates that it is sufficient to inspect only a small number of packets sampled predominantly from small flows, as long as the probability of occurrence of intrusion P H is below a critical threshold that is determined from Eq. (13) and calculated in real time from Eq. (16).
The Food and Drug Administration lacks that authority and must rely on inspections at ports of entry -- yet it inspects only about 1percentt of all imported food.
It inspects only after complaints, and that wouldn't change with a new law.
Under normal circumstances, the Fire Department inspects only residential buildings for fire safety if asked, said Frank Gribbon, a Fire Department spokesman.
Under the old law, most large mines had been inspected only twice a year, and then on a relatively cursory basis, com pared to the vigilance required of inspectors under the new regulations.
