Testing, tracking and tracing ingredients is expensive but not testing will cost retailers, processors, British farmers and consumers much more.
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First, it has become practical to use IT to automate and semi-automate many aspects of the testing process, which lowers the cost of testing enormously.
But this new testing regime could cost the industry millions of pounds.
The chemical industry's lobbyists argue that the cost of testing all these chemicals would be too high.
More species can be mapped, and the cost of testing will fall, as surely as a chainsawed tree.
That is without the ongoing cost of testing poop, or the fact that DNA testing often does not work, and the creation of an entirely new litigation process and resulting body of law devoted to appealing DNA-evidence based dog poop fines.
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The projects are: rigorous enforcement of trade rights, formulation of a national industrial strategy, cost-benefit testing of environmental rules, and reorganization of the space exploration program.
Matt O'Connor, the outfit's founder (and a PR man), says his first pop-up let him launch his brand for a tenth of the normal cost, while testing product ideas.
Already, the Affordable Care Act has extended coverage to thousands of young adults, and has increased access to HIV testing for millions of women without cost sharing.
Giving patients warfarin involves a whole industry of testing, and it represents a big cost to the medical system.
Compare the cost of keeping and maintaining hardware and software for test platforms locally, and the cost of leveraging PaaS for testing.
This testing can add an extra 30% to the cost of the final product.
Simple, low-cost measures, such as regular TB-testing for people living with AIDS, are where investment has the most impact on saving lives.
The packaging and testing phase account for close to 60 percent of the cost of an LED today so unified semiconductors would further help drive down unit costs, while increasing throughput.
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There is a huge amount of cost associated with keeping extra hardware and software around just for testing purposes.
Project ScanaFlu is a low-cost disposable cartridge that can test for cold and flu symptoms by testing saliva.
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Other measures include making criminals pay the entire cost of their defence if they refuse to take part in means testing.
Microsoft said that it would cost "tens of million of dollars" a week if the testing of Office 2000 were held up.
Retailers such as Wal-Mart are testing the RF tag idea to track inventory in transit, but the high cost per tag has been a problem.
Lord Turner insists that restoring the earnings link, despite its cost, is vital in order to arrest the spread of means-testing which discourages saving.
The sport's bosses have repeatedly called for teams to implement cost-cutting measures, and new regulations for the 2009 season include limits on testing and other rules to curb spending.
South African politicians insist that they are worried about the long-term cost and efficacy of such drugs, and fret that western drug makers may use the country as a testing ground for markets elsewhere.
The department has already done some field testing with the system, trying it out at the Vancouver General Hospital and bringing it to Uganda, where low cost medical devices and Journey spoofs are in high demand.
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