Government agencies United Kingdom

The AMFC Directive requires that food control laboratories should be accredited to the EN 45000 series of standards as supplemented by some of the OECD GLP principles. In the UK, government departments have nominated the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) to carry out the accreditation of official food control laboratories for all the aspects prescribed in the Directive. However, as the accreditation agency will also be required to comply with the EN 45003 Standard and to carry out assessments in accordance with the EN 45002 Standard, all accreditation agencies that are members of the European Cooperation for Accreditation of Laboratories (EA) may be asked to carry out the accreditation of a food control laboratory within the UK. Similar procedures will be followed in the other Member States, all having or developing equivalent organisations to UKAS. Details of the UK requirements for food control laboratories are described later in this chapter. 

Health-care insurance claims databases (managed by for-profit managed care organizations or government agencies) General Practice Research Database (United Kingdom)... 

It is worth discussing the workplace safety and health concept developed and implemented in the United Kingdom. Some of the Commonwealth countries, particularly Australia, have adopted this concept as well. The concept reduces the amount of regulation for safety and health details by the government. The concept relies on risk analysis and the hierarchy of controls (see Table 3-2) for companies, employers, and workers. It contrasts with the approach in the United States in which government agencies, such as... 

Government and University Research. In Mars exploration-related research, NASA has a robust international relationship with agencies like the European Space Agency and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency and with governmental and university sci-entihc researchers from the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Japan, Sweden, and Switzerland. 

Information on hitherto secret processes developed by government agencies is slowly reaching the public domain, thanks partly to the Freedom of Information Acts in the United States (1966) and the United Kingdom (2000). We now know the significance of COLEX, Runcol, Silex, and several other chemical processes of former military importance. 

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