American officials said that the agreement did not cover all the food products sought for tighter inspections, but that it could be expanded.
Patrols by fighter jets over American cities and tighter inspections of passengers and luggage at airports would have been difficult to justify based on the information available.
Financial regulators took control on Saturday of one of the nation's largest regional lenders, Ashikaga Bank, after tighter inspections showed that the bank was insolvent.
Local officials have ordered a temporary shutdown at part of the Formosa refinery, and the central government has said the nuclear plant's early 2012 start date may be delayed for tighter inspections.
In a separate notice, the cultural heritage agency ordered tighter inspections of certificates of origin and other documentation of all cultural relics that Christie's seeks to bring in or out of the country, The A.P. said.
At an emergency meeting in Tianjin the previous day, Liu Cigui, the head of the SOA, called for tighter inspections of offshore wells, and checks on potential impacts from the pollution such as algae blooms and red tides.
And some worry that Japan and other countries that have customarily imported large quantities of pet foods may cut back on their orders or insist on tighter inspections of plants and products.
Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Wednesday that an unidentified diplomatic source in Beijing had said that rare earth shipments to the United States and Europe were being held up by customs officials for tighter inspections, one of the explanations that customs officials have also given in blocking shipments to Japan for the past month.
The former were forced to dump provisions that would have clamped tighter inspections on Iraq's borders, but even the watered-down "smart" sanctions seem to endorse the view that Iraq remains a danger to world peace.Iraq has described the measures as a "new harassment".
China's State Administration of Cultural Heritage said it would order tighter inspections of all cultural relics that the house brings into, or out of, mainland China.
