Not only that, in the United States we hire independent third-party security companies, such as EWA, to audit our products in order to certify the safety and reliability of the products at the source code level.

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It appears to have done no more to alleviate public anxiety than did the execution in 2007 of a former head of the State Food and Drug Administration for taking bribes to certify products as safe.

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Among those recommendations, Leavitt told CBS' The Early Show, was to give agencies more authority to certify that products meet U.S. standards before they arrive in the country.

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The amendment would require exporting countries to certify that their beef products were free from BSE.

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Such blue-chip financial institutions rely largely on 20 or so rock-star sharia scholars to certify that their financial products are in accord with the Koran and the Prophet's teachings.

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Visa said Friday it created a program that will allow mobile-phone manufacturers, point-of-sale terminal makers and other companies to more quickly certify their products under the card company's security standards.

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