The National Committee for Quality Assurance can tell you whether a physician has met certain quality standards for treating some medical problems.
It published on Monday, for the first time, environmental quality standards setting acceptable limits for contaminants in soil.
Beijing Times says authorities must also act quickly to introduce acceptable quality standards for bottled drinking water to allay public fears about contamination from deteriorating air and water quality as well as polluting industries.
Schapiro talked about a number of issues, but one she stressed strongly was the need for high quality international accounting standards.
And power to me is just keeping true to its core mission: to adhere to the highest quality standards for news, entertainment and information of all kinds.
Toyota's top hybrid engineers say they are all for plug-ins, but they don't think the lithium-ion batteries they depend on will be ready to meet their stringent quality standards for several years. (They cannot resist a polite titter about spontaneously combusting laptop batteries.) Toyota is therefore likely to stick with the heavy and range-limited nickel-metal hydride battery for the third-generation Prius, due in 2009.
The resulting product portfolio is expected to set new standards for sound quality, clarity and speech intelligibility.
It will need to be money which is driving up the quality of standards for the travelling public.
"There's still a lot of consumer confusion, " said Joe Dickson, the global quality standards coordinator for Whole Foods Market.
But ZVOX standards for sound quality -- which have earned them numerous Editors Choice Awards -- have not been compromised.
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The losers may be us, a public suddenly so hot for growthy tech stocks that quality standards are starting to slip.
We have also taken the lead in fighting for the resources students need to meet higher standards, high-quality professional development for teachers, and after-school and summer-school schemes to help children who may be falling behind.
The generic manufacturing and packaging sites must pass the same quality standards as those for brand-name drugs.
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Design for quality by creating better education programs, standards, and curriculum and exams, while leaving lesson plans up to teachers.
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He said members were concerned the contract was awarded too cheaply, and it would be difficult for an organisation to double the service provided for the same cost and still meet quality standards.
Oil companies have also been in the "eye of the storm", but the boss of state-run oil giant Sinopec says the country's oil quality standards are to blame for pollution, Economic Information Daily reports.
Whether or not the researchers met acceptable quality standards, what bodes ill for digital watermarking is that Dr Felten and his colleagues got such a long way with only three test files per technology.
Standards for motor vehicle emissions and fuel quality should be further tightened.
That is a higher bar but that is great for journalists who already hold themselves to higher standards of quality.
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The editorial also reveals a range of actions in response to the Francis Report, including the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh's intention to establish a confidential standards "hotline" for members witnessing poor quality care.
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Perhaps in a market for apples, the government does not need to mandate minimum quality standards.
New USDA meal patterns and professional standards will assure improved quality child nutrition programs for our children which in turn will support student academic performance in the classroom.
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Water quality issues also create risk for companies, from stricter pollution standards on their own effluent to other entities polluting water upstream, requiring them to clean up water prior to use.
Nongfu Spring, one of the China's biggest water producers, is suing Beijing Times for alleging that its bottled water did not meet national water quality standards, but instead adhered to a lower provincial standard.
They say air quality is improving, thanks to tighter emissions standards for motor-vehicles and to the moving of one the city's biggest polluters, a steel plant in the western suburbs, to an offshore island.
The municipalities are now looking for private help as the Environmental Protection Agency imposes standards on water quality that municipalities cannot satisfy without outside financing and expertise.
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Our reforms: tougher discipline, more rigorous exams, more freedom for headteachers, a more demanding curriculum and higher quality teaching, will drive up standards so our pupils have a first-class education that matches the best in the world.
In October the American National Standards Institute accepted a proposal to develop a system of quality standards to be dubbed AT 9000. (AT stands for automated trading.) Kumiega, Van Vliet and a handful of others, including finance industry professionals, belong to a working group that is drafting the proposed system of standards.
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And there are worries about the quality of trainee teachers, whose courses are also inspected by the Office for Standards in Education in England (Ofsted), headed by Mr Woodhead.
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