Test-specific regulations

The site acceptance testing also provides an opportunity to identify and correct any problems due to shipping, utility hookup, hardware assembly, and field installation. The extent of SAT required can be determined by the completeness of the FAT, and as such is a full or partial repeat of the acceptance test specification with connections to the field instrumentation and regulating devices. Where it is not considered necessary to conduct a full repeat of the FAT, the rationale for this decision should be recorded in the qualification report. 

Each incinerator test burn is unique and specific to the regulation being addressed. Each component of the test bum is determined by the test objectives and is unique from sampling requirements to test methods to data reporting, and is in many cases all or in part determined by the specific regulation.8... 

Structure-activity data for plant regulators are not very abundant in comparison with similar information on pesticides. This stems partly from the relative novelty of plant regulators and partly from the diflBculty in obtaining biological test data. While research in plant regulation has been active for scores of years, identification of specific regulators— more precisely, plant hormones— has been generated within the past 35-40 yrs. 

Herbals are nonwoody plants whose extracts are used for dietary supplements, but not for medication. Herbals are described according to their effects on tissue, such as increasing blood flow to the heart. Herbals are not usually described as cures for specific diseases. The Food and Drug Administration does not test or regulate herbals. Therefore there are no purity and strength standards for herbals, which make the effect of an herb unreliable. Herbals are sold over the counter. No prescription is required. 

The biological effects of IPG include tissue-specific regulation of lipolysis, lipogen-esis, glycolytic flux, protein synthesis and/or phosphorylation, DNA and RNA synthesis and also long-term actions such as cellular prohferation. IPG-P activates glycerol-3-phosphate acyl transferase [17], but almost aU the other insulin-mimetic activities reported were tested for IPG-A prepared in vitro by hydrolysis of highly purified GPI [1, 7, 8, 75, 76]. 

Test methods to comply with specific regulations or voluntary agreements these types of test methods are usually larger than laboratory-scale tests and are included in the prescriptive (specification)-based fire codes. Generally, products in their end-use configurations are tested under a defined fire condition. 

For safety systems, these test specification documents should be verified and approved independently by people who did not take part in the elaboration of the specifications for system requirements. These test specification documents should also be leviewable by regulators. 

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