Helen Murray Free invented self-testing equipment that lets diabetics measure their own blood levels of glucose at home.

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But Odabashian said the agency has also vetoed efforts by private companies to carry out their own testing, at their own expense, and then labeling their product as BSE-free.

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Companies are legally obliged to inform the FDA of such findings from their own testing, said Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety for Center for Science in the Public Interest.

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Automakers actually do their own testing and submit the results to the EPA, which reviews the data and confirms about 10-to-15 percent of the ratings itself at the National Vehicles and Fuel Emissions Laboratory (which is how Hyundai and Kia were supposedly tripped up on their understated fuel economy estimates).

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