The low-lignin trees, some experts say, have not been tested enough under real field conditions.
W. Scott Harkonen, InterMune's chief executive, said that while he empathizes with Mr. Stendig, the drug has not been tested enough.
BMW believes that current technologies used in the all-electric vehicles have not been tested enough in real conditions to be ready to be sold to the public.
"My take on the whole situation is probably that the D.S.L. industry is growing too fast," he said, "and that the technology hasn't been tested enough with all the volume and variables".
Mr. Carroll denied the pressure but said the agency believed that artemisinin had not been tested enough on infants and that sulfadoxine/pyrimethamine, or S/P, had some years of usefulness left.
Until recently, big donors like the United States and Britain had opposed its use on a wide scale, saying it was too expensive, had not been tested enough on children and was not needed in areas where other malaria drugs still worked.
Another obstacle to adoption is executives' fear that the technology has not been tested enough in pilots and POCs.
She also said claims that Jamaica's top athletes had not been tested enough were wrong, pointing to figures released by the IAAF, the body that governs world athletics.
Pujara, 23, has not been tested enough in international cricket, although the manner in which he dealt with the Australian bowlers in a Bangalore Test which India won holds great promise.
