Practical work guidelines

Good science exists in research in academic institutions apart from the soon to be established Environmental Protection Agency s (EPA) Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) guidelines. However, this is not to say that GLP s are not advisable. Good science should be able to stand up to review as having been performed using appropriate and adequate laboratory practices. Scientists have had their work routinely scrutinized by their peers for its quality and will not resent careful analysis by others. For example, only a portion of the work produced by the scientific community is acceptable for publication in its various journals. The rate of acceptance in journals varies but it is apparent that the peer review system attempts to serve as a quality control mechanism in the scientific community. 

Since its inception, the CA Commission has produced a large volume of standards, codes of practice, and guidelines. It has developed more than 220 commodity standards, more than 40 codes of practice, a model food law, a code of ethics, and limits for more than 500 food additives. In addition, the commission scrutinized 2,000 pesticides and established limits on 200 of them (Mendez 1993). The work on pesticide residues has resulted in establishing maximum residue limits (MRLs) for a wide range of pesticides in many food commodities. The... 

Before commencing any experimental work with either a flame (emission) photometer or an atomic absorption spectrophotometer, the following guidelines on safety practices should be studied. These recommendations are a summary... 

To use the physicochemical properties of ether carboxylates in the practice for product development, Meijer [64] made some working schemes which can be used as guidelines (Tables 10 and 11). 

That said, there are of course best practice guidelines with regard to mentoring schemes. We shall try and disseminate these here and, indeed, throughout this book. However, when choosing an approach to implementing your scheme, you should nevertheless carefully assess what would work best for your organization. 

Work Group on Panic Disorder. Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with panic disorder. Am J Psychiatry 1998 155(suppl 5) 1—34. 

Switzerland s authorities and economic sector are working closely together to implement the ORDEA. A uniform enforcement practice and substantial input from the companies are important prerequisites for success, to which their present guidelines will contribute. 

Data from Katon WJ. Panic disorder. N Engl J Med 2006 354 2360-2367 Bandelow B, Zohar J, Hollander E, etal. Guidelines for the pharmacological treatment of anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and posttraumatic stress disorders. World J Biol Psychiatry 2002,3 171-199 Work Group on Panic Disorder. Practice guideline for the treatment of patients with panic disorder. Am J Psychiatry 1998 155(Supp 5) l-34 and EffexorXR[package insert]. Philadelphia, PA Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Inc., August 2006. 

Haley, P. et al., STP Immunotoxicology Working Group. STP position paper best practice guideline for the routine pathology evaluation of the immune system, Toxicol. Pathol., 33, 404, 2005... 

The American Psychological Association (APA) has established stringent criteria for determining whether a therapy is empirically supported or validated. Since those guidelines were developed, the committee researching this area has been working for several years to determine the best practices to use when treating certain disorders, such as depression or anxiety. Insurance companies and... 

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