In addition to the accident in Michigan, an oil spill last July in the Yellowstone River in Montana prompted lawmakers and safety advocates to call for more stringent inspections of pipelines, as did a natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno, Calif., in 2010 that killed eight people.
At the same time, stringent inspections of Iran's nuclear sites could build support in the U.S. and elsewhere for further negotiations.
Conservatives and reformists alike resist demands that Iran accept more stringent inspections of its nuclear sites: they fear being de-fanged, like Iraq.
Food producers and distributors, now striving to follow the regulations, are looking for ways to minimize pesticide drift from one crop to another and are setting up plans for more stringent inspection of products—even those that originate in other countries before they hit store shelves.
They include banning specific, high-tech items used in the nuclear program, like epoxy paste for centrifuges; limiting or outlawing some banking transactions; and a far more stringent inspection of ships bound to and from North Korea.
He has put in stringent inspection standards for the 400 farms participating in the program.
He implemented more stringent inspection standards for the 400 farms participating in the program to ensure abusive breeders did not go unnoticed.
It also agreed to train all its employees about regulations and to undergo more stringent inspections.
Most military commanders faulted the idea as impractical, but Mr. Bush incorporated an echo of it in his proposal for a United Nations resolution that would force Iraq to submit to much more stringent inspections or face the consequences.
Any agreement would have to include stringent inspections and extensive safeguards.
