Among its proposed powers will be the responsibility for monitoring the safety and standards of all food for human consumption.

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The Data Safety Monitoring Board for the APPROVe study recommended that the study be stopped for safety reasons.

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One, Marvin Konstam of Tufts University, said he was on the data safety monitoring board for a study of Natrecor.

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In January 2003 the Microsoft SQL Server worm, known as Slammer, infected a private computer network at David-Besse nuclear power plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, disabling a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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At a minimum, governments are supposed to lay down criteria for selecting storage sites and to set standards for monitoring, financial guarantees, safety and so on.

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Scott Nova, executive director of the Worker Rights Consortium, a Washington-based nonprofit monitoring group, said labor-rights groups' calls for better safety measures at Bangladesh factories had been met with "vague promises" from retailers.

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In mid-September a firm not affiliated with Arena found no safety problems after monitoring the hearts of people on lorcaserin for 6 months.

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Prof Pennington also criticised inspectors from Bridgend council for not assessing or monitoring the firm's management of food safety "as well as they could or should have done".

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Because of the this change, and because the data and safety monitoring board reviewed the data multiple times over the course of the study, the threshold for statistical significance was lowered to 0.036.

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