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Lead azide is not readily dead-pressed, ie, pressed to a point where it can no longer be initiated. However, this condition is somewhat dependent on the output of the mixture used to ignite the lead azide and the degree of confinement of the system. Because lead azide is a nonconductor, it may be mixed with flaked graphite to form a conductive mix for use in low energy electric detonators. A number of different types of lead azide have been prepared to improve its handling characteristics and performance and to decrease sensitivity. In addition to the dextrinated lead azide commonly used in the United States, service lead azide, which contains a minimum of 97% lead azide and no protective colloid, is used in the United Kingdom. Other varieties include colloidal lead azide (3—4 pm), poly(vinyl alcohol)-coated lead azide, and British RE) 1333 and RE) 1343 lead azide which is precipitated in the presence of carboxymethyl cellulose (88—92). 

Guidelines for the Blood Transfusion Services in the United Kingdom, National Institute For Biological Standards and Control, Potters Bar, 1992. 

If the distribution network consists of pipes with screwed rubber sockets and only the service pipes are of steel, these can be protected with zinc or magnesium anodes. This requires an insulating service clip near the insulating connection. It is usually sufficient just to insulate the stirrup of the service clip since the rubber seal of the service pipe acts as an insulator. In the United Kingdom, the protection of numerous service pipes has been proved with magnesium anodes [31]. 

Many of the important sources of engineering information are subscription services. In the United Kingdom some of them can be accessed using the Athens service available to universities. 

PPDS (Physical Property Data Service) was originally developed in the United Kingdom by the Institution of Chemical Engineers and the National Physical Laboratory. It is now available as a Microsoft Windows version from NEL, a division of the TUV Sudde-untschland Group (www.nel.uk). PPDS is made available to universities at a discount. 

Beggs, C.B., 1994. Ice thermal storage impact on United Kingdom carbon dioxide emissions, Building Services Eng. Res. Technol. 15 (1), 756-763. 

This series of texts is a result of an initiative by the Committee of Heads of Polytechnic Chemistry Departments in the United Kingdom, A project team based at Thames Polytechnic using funds available from the Manpower Services Commission Open Tech Project has organised and managed the development of the material suitable for use by Distance Learners . The contents of the various units have been identified, planned and written almost exclusively by groups of polytechnic staff, who are both expert in the subject area and are currently teaching in analytical chemistry. 

BioCISE, Resource Identification for a Biological Collection Information Service in Europe. Bioguide Culture Collections (United Kingdom). 

Merdol Ibrahim, Manager, United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Service Immunocytochemistry In situ Hybridization, London, UK... 

U.S. Weather Bureau (1964). Announced nuclear detonations 1945-1962, United States, United Kingdom, Republic of France, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, page 218 in Fallout Program Quarterly Summary Report, September 1, 1963 Through December 1, 1963, Report No. HASL-142 (National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia). 

UKAS Guidance on the Implementation and Management of Flexible Scopes of Accreditation within Laboratories , LAB39, United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), Feltham, UK, 2004. 

Accredited laboratories using the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) logo on their reports should make it clear to their customers whether the opinion and/or interpretation is part of their scope of accreditation. If the opinion or interpretation on a report is not within the scope, then there has to be a disclaimer, The opinions and interpretations indicated are outside the scope of UKAS accreditation . UKAS has published a guide to help interpret the ISO standard [3]. 

Major Hazard Incident Data Service (MHIDAS) Health and Safety Executive, United Kingdom (HSE) Retrieved information... 

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. 

The three Health Ministers of the United Kingdom, in consultation with the medical and pharmaceutical professions and the ABPl, set up the Committee on Safety of Drugs (CSD) in June 1963. The three Health Ministers were the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Minister of Health and the Minister of Health and Social Services, Northern Ireland. 

In the United Kingdom, annual expenditure on the National Health Service (NHS) is... 

In the United Kingdom, prescriptions are required for all medicines supplied under the National Health Service (NHS) and for all prescription-only medicines. Prescriptions may only be written by a doctor or dentist registered in the United Kingdom. 

The National Health Service spends more than 8.6 billion a year on medicines, yet this represents less than 13 per cent of its total expenditure. Medicine exports are worth over 10 billion a year - the United Kingdom s third largest foreign exchange earner in manufactured goods. Nearly a quarter of the world s top 100 medicines were discovered in Britain. 

United Kingdom Accreditation Service United Kingdom Agricultural Supply Trade Association... 

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