Chinese customs officials do inspect or sample products planned for export, but those inspections are not thought to be stringent enough to detect the presence of every chemical or impurity.
(The plaintiffs say those inspections are often rigged).
Until those inspections are completed, he said, China will not approve the plants for operation.
Those inspections would include thermal circuit imaging of factories' electrical systems to analyze for problems.
Those inspections were meant to satisfy lingering questions about Iran's nuclear intentions.
Those inspections were terminated in December 1998, over Iraq's persistent noncompliance.
The average patient, though, would be hard-pressed to ferret out the results of those inspections.
But instead of increasing the agency's budget to perform those inspections, House Republicans voted last week to cut it.
During those inspections, they said, dogs were brought into the cells and the inmates were ordered out of their beds.
The UNHCR conducts regular inspection visits of offshore detention camps and provides reports of those inspections to government.
