It can take eight months sometimes to get your product tested and approved.

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Organizations generally will not allow software to be released until it has been fully tested and approved by their software quality assurance group, he adds.

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Any cattle vaccine would need to be tested, trialled and approved for use by the European Union.

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Regulators, particularly the FAA, tested the aircraft and approved it for commercial flight.

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During the past three decades, untold numbers of drugs and diagnostic tests based on recombinant DNA technology have been tested and hundreds have been approved for marketing.

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AstraZeneca's Iressa--which is approved for lung cancer and being tested in colon tumors--is a pill, while Erbitux must be injected.

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If the studies work out and the drug is approved, it might someday be tested to prevent first heart attacks, where Plavix failed.

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This is because the FDA considers it a new dietary supplement which needs to be tested for safe use before it can be approved as an additive in energy drinks and other such products.

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