Sentences with phrase «own voluntary testing»

Though this test didn't present any risks, some other voluntary tests do.
ActiveBabyCarrier products have not undergone voluntary testing by the ASTM, but are otherwise compliant with CPSIA regulations.»
The voluntary tests reportedly involve pupils providing a sample of saliva which is then tested for traces of drugs such as cannabis, amphetamines and cocaine, with the results available after about 20 minutes.
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irtec is a renewable voluntary testing and assessment scheme that certifies the theoretical and practical skills of PCV, heavy goods and light commercial vehicle technicians.
Proper genetic counseling was supposed to accompany voluntary testing.
RV254 / SEARCH In this collaboration with the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center, samples are collected from individuals receiving voluntary testing and counseling at two clinics in Bangkok.
The voluntary testing program is sponsored by the state department of education and is designed to serve as a «diagnostic tool» for students, counselors, and curriculum planners, according to Duane Clow, professor of mathematics at the university and the director of the testing program.
Following are questions and answers that will provide some general information about the voluntary tests.
The National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) consistently strives to improve the quality of automotive service and repair through voluntary testing and certification of automotive service technicians.

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The Obama administration and former Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx laid the groundwork in January 2016 with a series of voluntary safety guidelines and by offering $ 4 billion in federal funding to foster the testing and development of self - driving technology.
«Real - world testing of reporting systems and plan designs through voluntary compliance for 2014 will contribute to a smoother transition to full implementation for 2015,» the notice says.
Instead, on Dec. 1, Mettrum issued a vague press release saying that «as a result of further testing and working with the full co-operation of Health Canada,» the company was adding «a small number of additional product lots» to its previous voluntary recall.
All of their pet foods and treats are sourced, manufactured, and packaged in the USA, and the company maintains strict quality control standards that include voluntary on - site USDA testing.
The federal government has voluntary guidelines for companies that want to test autonomous vehicles, leaving much of the regulation up to states.
On the issue of how to support Canadian content when fewer Canadians are purchasing cable TV subscriptions, the government tested four options to raise new money for Canadian content: making telecom companies divert some smartphone and Internet revenue; requiring «foreign companies like Netflix and iTunes» to devote a portion of revenues; giving consumers the option of making a voluntary $ 2 contribution on their telecom or Netflix bill; or making telecom companies add an app to every smartphone sold in Canada that would provide access to Canadian music, TV and film for between $ 5 and $ 15 a month or a flat charge of $ 3 on the sale of all smartphones.
It creates more economical means for our industry to self - regulate, focus on testing, spot audits and compliance checks, and to build on TOP members» great work (much of it voluntary) over the past decades promoting Tasmanian organic products.
If an LEA adopts a policy permitting random drug testing of students in voluntary extracurricular activities, it must notify the parents and guardians that the student may be subjected to random drug testing prior to a student participating in an extracurricular activity, with the parent or guardian providing written consent.
Description: Babee Talk eco-friendly plush baby toys undergo extensive testing — both mandatory and voluntary — and meet the highest product safety standards.
The Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) and American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTA) conduct safety testing and make sure a high chair meets voluntary safety staTesting and Materials (ASTA) conduct safety testing and make sure a high chair meets voluntary safety statesting and make sure a high chair meets voluntary safety standards.
Most countries offer voluntary counseling and testing as part of antenatal services.
Last month, Patricia Hackett, a Consumer Product Safety Commission engineer who has followed the issue for years, wrote to the group that sets voluntary standards for cribs and urged it to establish tougher tests.
The end point — time to exhaustion on a graded maximal treadmill test — was measured using a stepwise speed and gradient treadmill test to voluntary maximum duration.
This blanket surpassed others in its class by passing 12 mandatory safety tests with flying colors and succeeding seven other exams that were entirely voluntary.
As a result, even if a private sports program that uses town fields, rinks, diamonds, or courts is required to comply with state mandates regarding concussion safety, I believe that there is a huge sports safety gap which, absent voluntary implementation by a private sports program of youth sports health and safety best practices, such as those we are pilot testing in Grand Prairie, Texas this fall as part of our SmartTeams ™ program, can and should be filled by a municipality by exercising its power of the permit.
majority of high chair manufacturers are already building and testing their high chairs to the voluntary ASTM safety standards.
This feature is infallible at most walkers that meet the voluntary safety standard, but our past tests showed that they're not reliable.
The parliament in New South Wales has already considered voluntary breath - testing units so that ministers can «self monitor and take personal responsibility for the amount of alcohol they consume».
To reduce the workload of the new child support body, estranged couples on means - tested benefits would no longer be obliged to use its services, and they would be offered advice to help them find a voluntary solution.
A new state regulation now requires that people ages 13 to 64, and other ages as indicated, be offered voluntary HIV testing as a routine part of health care at hospitals and in primary care settings.
At the launch of this year's Ghana AIDS World AIDS Day in Accra, Director General of the Ghana AIDS Commission, Dr. Angela El - Adas said voluntary counselling and testing still remains the surest way to address the high rate of HIV and AIDS cases.
Implementation of the tests is scheduled for 2009/10; the government will work until then with medical professionals and voluntary sector workers to draw up how the system will work.
voluntary confidential counselling and testing (VCCT).
«As I stated last month, when I released results of our testing program that included over 150 residences across the City of Buffalo, out of an abundance of caution, we are expanding our voluntary initiative to make sure all water we deliver is safe from lead and other contaminants,» said Mayor Byron Brown.
89 people from compulsory centres and 95 from voluntary centres who met criteria for an opioid use disorder had drug tests and interviews on study entry and repeatedly after release (at one, three, six, nine or 12 months post-release).
But for both people and animals, voluntary lab testing to diagnose flu captures only the small fraction of cases that ever involve a doctor visit.
One step would be stress testing, engaging pension funds and companies to examine if they hold carbon - intensive assets on their books, said Martin Skancke, who spoke on the first panel and is chairman of the Advisory Council of Principles for Responsible Investing, a U.N. - supported initiative that has helped formulate a widely followed voluntary protocol of responsible investment criteria.
In the past, however, decisions on whether or not to undergo genetic testing have been the voluntary choices of individuals.
With funding from NIH and others, this program promoted HIV testing, ART and voluntary medical male circumcision to study participants.
The meta - analysis examined 394 non-cancer, phase I studies comprising 11,028 healthy, compensated, voluntary participants (4,620 unique individuals, some of whom participated in more than one study) conducted between September 2004 and March 2011 at Pfizer Inc.'s three worldwide dedicated phase I testing sites in Belgium, Singapore and the United States.
Participation in the project will be entirely voluntary, and will test whether there is the potential for these investigations to be supported by wider use of DNA testing and isotope analysis.
Upon dissolution or winding up of said corporation's affairs, whether voluntary or involuntary, all of its assets then remaining in the hands of the board of directors shall, after paying or making provision for payment of all of said corporation's liabilities, be distributed, transferred, conveyed, delivered, and paid over only to educational, scientific, literary, or charitable organizations that are exempt from federal income tax under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and which are not private foundations within the meaning of section 509 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, on whatever terms and conditions and in whatever amounts the board of directors may determine, for use exclusively for educational, scientific, literary, or charitable purposes, except that no distribution shall be made to organizations testing for public safety.
To investigate, Chen and his colleagues tested a group of five - week - old mice, with two weeks of voluntary wheel running.
To test the theory, the researchers worked with charity the Workers» Educational Association (WEA), the UK's largest voluntary sector provider of adult education.
In three of these patients, additional bedside testing revealed some sign of awareness, but in the other two patients, no voluntary behavior could be detected by means of clinical assessment.
This research program encompasses a series of fMRI, MEG and TMS / tDCS studies testing voluntary versus automated control of...
For this reason, the authors tested the hypothesis that voluntary blood donation is associated with reduced risk of acute myocardial infarction in a prospective epidemiologic follow - up study in men from eastern Finland.
In recognition, Walter Reed Project - Kenya held community events that educated more than 400 community members, and urged attendees to utilize the VCT (voluntary counseling testing) services on site.
It is also recommended that the current voluntary restriction on insurers» ability to ask for predictive genetic test results should be renewed, in the light of public concerns over genomic data disclosure to insurers and the risk that this might result in many «refusing their consent to receive additional findings from whole genome sequencing».
We develop computational models of neuromuscular systems such as the arm to test hypotheses about how the brain controls voluntary movement, and how motor learning is achieved.
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