The British Food Standards Agency has confirmed that a small number of UK companies may have received products from the Dutch wholesalers.
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Whatever it is, the British Food Standards Agency figures it could help stop it by affecting demand for high-calorie foods generated by advertising.
This forced the closure of the News of the World tabloid and prompted an inquiry into British press standards, led by Lord Justice Leveson.
The British Food Standards Agency rejected the center's petition, noting that confirmed reactions seemed to occur about once per 146, 000 mycoprotein customers--a figure supplied, admittedly, by Marlow.
Andrew Smithers, a London-based economist, put out a report late last year indicating that if Japanese life insurers were held to U.S. or British accounting standards, their collective liabilities would exceed their assets.
Geoffrey Pearson, who follows popular fears at Goldsmith's College in London, says history may be responsible for the persistent British belief in slipping standards of conduct.
"The results of the research encourage me to believe that the use of an SAT-type test could complement achievement tests such as A-levels and could broaden intake to British universities without lowering standards, " he said.
Whereas a majority of continental companies with huge pension schemes already use international financial-reporting standards or similar American ones, lots of big British companies are in the process of switching standards.
He said "we may never know whether it was arrogance, naivety or hubris which led Mr Fox to this", but the British people expected the highest standards of conduct.
By the standards of realism, British policy in recent decades has been, at best, a partial success.
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America is a much more mature economy and its own corporate governance standards lag behind the British and Australians.
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Since these companies are outposts of American or British firms and adhere to their standards, they must master not only unfamiliar terms but also the mind-set behind them.
"British consultants have to meet exacting standards by providing evidence of continuing professional education and good clinical governance but the Department of Health appears not to enforce these standards on imported surgeons, " they said.
As it happens, the Basel gurus are introducing a 33-to-1 gross leverage ratio - which many would see as a step in the right direction, but British MPs and lords on the standards commission think is too high.
Four rounds of games will determine the winner, with the top six clubs making the next season's British and Irish Cup subject to meeting standards criteria.
He is a liberal by some African standards, a quirky conservative by British lights.
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At 4%, British bond yields are already low by past standards.
This means that any marketing campaign aimed at persuading people to buy more British meat because it is produced to higher standards than meat from other countries can have only limited success.
By the standards of other rich countries, the British economy is doing well in difficult circumstances.
The British state will stay extraordinarily centralised by European and American standards, says Tony Travers of the London School of Economics.
Elsewhere in Canada, especially British Columbia and Ontario, dissatisfaction with public-school standards is increasingly driving parents to pack their children off to private schools.
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British politicians are neither corrupt nor lavishly remunerated by international standards.
"UK egg producers have worked hard to meet high welfare standards ahead of parts of Europe, " the British Retail Consortium's food director Andrew Opie said.
International research tends to find that by the time British children leave primary school they are reading well by international standards, but read less often for fun than those elsewhere.
Iceland was one of the supermarket chains caught up in the crisis when the Irish Food Standards Agency said some Iceland burgers contained horse DNA. Their products subsequently passed the British tests - which only show positive at more than 1 percent horse DNA trace.
Eve Knight, from the British Cardiac Patients' Association, said the study highlighted the need for all hospitals to perform to the highest standards.
The chairman of a large British firm recalls how his company secretary (general counsel) decided to draft an ethics code with appropriately lofty standards.
The Energy and Climate Change Committee is looking at the British government's refusal to impose a moratorium on deepwater drilling in Britain and whether existing safety and environmental standards need updating in light of the massive spill.
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