In the wake of the Findus discovery, the chief executive of the Food Standards Agency, Catherine Brown, said UK firms must test all their beef products by next Friday.
However, Mr Paterson insisted he had "discussed this issue yesterday with the chief executive of the Food Standards Agency (FSA), who is completely satisfied that the information required from Sodexo has been supplied".
America, chastened by its own regulatory failures, is now more supportive of tougher, co-ordinated global regulatory standards but only to a degree: it is unenthusiastic about uniform standards for executive pay pushed by Britain.
And Infosys stands out in another way--it holds itself to executive compensation and corporate governance standards that meet or exceed the best practices of most companies in developed countries, let alone the opaque norms of most Indian companies.
In a keynote speech a Microsoft executive warned against a war on standards and asked the e-book industry to join forces.
President Obama could issue an executive order on Tuesday dictating cybersecurity standards for industries with vulnerable infrastructure, such as transportation.
He appeared before Parliament's banking standards committee alongside chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio.
For strategies that invest in a range of asset classes, such as bonds and commodities, investors and advisers should come up with a more-balanced benchmark, says Jonathan Boersma, executive director of Global Investment Performance Standards for the CFA Institute.
The laissez-faire economic model of the United States has led to a corporate cronyism where the top companies are allowed a large amount of freedom to police themselves and their own governance standards for things like executive pay, performance, and general corporate responsibility.
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However, it should still allow the board to exercise its fiduciary duties to the corporation in the event the executive director is not performing to the stated standards.
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Welby has unusual standing in the world of money because in a previous life he served as an oil industry executive and now sits on the parliamentary banking standards committee.
On Tuesday, Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry into press standards heard that News Corp PR executive Fred Michel was alerted to the contents of a Commons statement before it was aired in Westminster two days later.
However, MPs also heard from WJEC chief executive Gareth Pierce, who called for "shared standards" in the exams sat across the three countries.
The factories, which also supplied clothes to other European retailers, had been audited by Mango executives in October to determine safety standards and work conditions, one factory executive said.
Tony Fragnito, chief executive of XBRL International, which sets the XBRL standards, said securities regulators in other countries such as Japan, China and Australia were taking a similar approach to the SEC.
"The horsemeat scandal exposed the need for urgent changes to the way food fraud is detected and standards are enforced, " said Which? executive director Richard Lloyd.
The archbishop - a former oil industry executive - is a member of the cross-party Banking Standards Commission.
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In order to provide accountability in state retirement systems, The Act applies standards similar to Sarbanes-Oxley to the principal executive and financial officers of the State.
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When Eleanor Roosevelt arrived at the Executive Mansion in 1933, she found the kitchen far below her standards.
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Chief executive David White, who becomes redundant in April, told a standards committee inquiry he recorded a telephone conversation because he found Mr Murphy hard to work with.
The CFA Institute, a nonprofit association of financial analysts, also is working on new standards for presenting returns to retail clients, says an executive director there, Jonathan Boersma.
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Wednesday's move follows an executive order that President Barack Obama signed last week to create voluntary cybersecurity standards for companies running critical infrastructure like the electric grid.
Those figures were the result of an analysis done since the federal government implemented Clinton's February 1998 executive orders requiring government health care programs to come into compliance with his standards for a patients' bill of rights.
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Katherine Murphy, chief executive of The Patients Association, said patients regularly contacted their helpline about poor standards of food in hospital.
Mr Agius, who also serves on the BBC's executive board, said last week's events were evidence of "unacceptable standards of behaviour within the bank".
And that's why, earlier today, I signed a new executive order that will strengthen our cyber defences by increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect our national security, our jobs, and our privacy.
While the virtual machines cut costs and save energy, they also raise questions about data leakage as well as whether a customer would ever find out files have been breached, said Jim Reavis, executive director of Cloud Security Alliance, a non-profit advocated for cloud security standards.
Open source developers are writing standards and testing procedures for Linux use, says John "Maddog" Hall, executive director of the nonprofit group Linux International and an executive with VA Linux.
Stuart Gulliver, group chief executive and Douglas Flint, group chairman of HSBC Holdings, appear before the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards at 9.45am.
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