The agency would not identify the companies that were examined, but said those receiving sanctions would be identified.
Since 2011, the IAAF has pursued 63 cases based on the biological passport programme, with 39 athletes receiving sanctions.
No one likes receiving sanctions and the longer the interaction the more chance of a defensive reaction or escalation.
The European Union, which completely halted oil imports from Iran in July 2012, also seems poised to re-enter the market, with 10 member states receiving sanctions waivers last month.
Across the UK, the amount of claimants receiving sanctions and losing their benefits has been consistently rising since October 2012, when the DWP issued a tougher policy on sanctions.
At Berkeley, law school Dean Sujit Choudhry, astronomer Geoff Marcy and Vice Chancellor of Research Graham Fleming were allowed to retain campus positions after receiving sanctions that critics found unacceptably weak, such as pay cuts, fines, mandatory counseling and orders to issue apologies.
Female doctors have reduced odds of receiving sanctions on their medical registration when compared with their male colleagues.
Receiving sanctions is a rare outcome and using a large data set is crucial when examining rare outcomes.
To examine the association between doctors' sex and receiving sanctions on their medical registration, while controlling for other potentially confounding variables.
We aimed to examine the effect of doctors' sex on receiving sanctions against their medical registration, while adjusting for known confounding factors.
These variables were selected as a priori confounders based on findings from earlier research, 7 8 11 14 which demonstrated that these factors may influence the risk of receiving sanctions.
