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This. Almost all regulatory bodies, whether CARB, OSHA, EPA, USDA have been pushed into a mode of "self-certification", where the regulated effectively police t
by URSpider94 11y ago
This. Almost all regulatory bodies, whether CARB, OSHA, EPA, USDA have been pushed into a mode of "self-certification", where the regulated effectively police themselves. Compliance bodies rarely have the staff or the budget to audit more than a scant fraction of the test results that are submitted to them.
For this to work, the punishment, when caught, has to overwhelm the profit from the deception by not just a little, but by a large multiple. Otherwise, companies will realize that they can just take the risk and will only have to pay up in the unlikely case that they are unmasked.