Inspection times animal studies

It has to be recognised on the other hand that even in study-based inspections there is some element of process-based inspecting, since activities of a repetitive nature, like the application of the test item to the test animals in a chronic toxicity study, will only be inspected on a random basis once or a few times during the conduct of the study. While it is thus customary to assume that, for the purpose of covering phases which occur with a very high frequency within a single study, a limited number of inspections will be suffi-... 

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