The government needs to reverse its decision to split responsibility for making sure food is what it clams to be between the Food Standards Agency and the environment department.
The McDonald's Corporation revamped its top management yesterday and split responsibility for its fast-growing international operations among a team of senior executives.
Several agencies split responsibility for oversight, with little coördination: the Food and Drug Administration supervises cosmetics, food, and medications, the Environmental Protection Agency regulates pesticides, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission oversees children's toys and other merchandise.
Labour accused the government of presiding over a food scandal made possible because David Cameron had split responsibility for food policy between the FSA, the Department of Health, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and called on him to review the changes.
A government that is avowedly free-market is about to impose a regulatory framework that will undermine the autonomy of universities, reduce the criteria for university title and split responsibility for sector oversight of teaching and research between two new organisations, the Office of Students and UK Research and Innovation.
All system interfaces are more difficult to deal with than the items in the system because of the split responsibility inevitable for interfaces.
With Max as their architect, the couple split the responsibilities for the project according to what they cared about most.
[C3.] I.B.M. to Reorganize Its Services Division I.B.M. announced a management reorganization that would split the responsibilities for leading its big services unit.
Shipman et al [ 6] also discussed the perception of a split between responsibility for prescribing and lack of control over decision making.
Although they never married, they remained close even after they split up, sharing responsibility for raising their daughter, Ms. Kross said.
It is certainly true that it might have been helpful to point out the split nature of responsibility for flood management.
