This feature is particularly beneficial for plant inspection.

Essentially, in a plant inspection, agency investigators review both manufacturing and record-keeping.

When a plant inspection is completed, agency inspectors typically issue a report to a company, listing any deficiencies they have found.

It did not step up plant inspections or mandate safety standards for businesses, even as more workers became ill.

But privately, Iraqi officials were delighted with the plant inspections.

The importer picks up the bill for air freight, plant inspections and the 8.1 percent duty.

The deficiencies, similar to some uncovered recently in plant inspections of generic drug manufacturers, "are not uncommon" among the companies the F.D.A. regulates, he said.

These facts were disclosed to the news media at the time of plant inspection by the Japanese Government on 13 February 2012.

Yet OSHA failed to mandate safety standards or step up plant inspections.

However, FDA collects samples for examination and analysis as part of its plant inspections, import inspections, and follow-up to complaints of adverse reactions.