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Department of the Treasury’s Office of the Inspector General on Tax Administration Report: Invoice Audit of the Microsoft Consulting Services Contract – TIRNO-03-K-00191, June 2006 (30 pages, PDF).
Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA or Agency) Counterfeit Drug Task Force: 2006 Update, released June 8, 2006. “Counterfeit prescription drugs are illegal, generally unsafe, and pose a serious threat to the public health. Many are visually indistinguishable from authentic drugs… We have witnessed an increase in counterfeiting activities and a more sophisticated ability to introduce …
FDA Food Safety Website “For general food safety questions, call the FDA Food Safety Hotline at 1-800-723-3366. If the situation is critical, phone FDA’s emergency number, (301) 443-1240, which is staffed 24 hours a day. If your questions involve meat or poultry products, call the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s hotline at 1-800-535-4555.”
The following were released on June 8, 2006 (all in PDF): Elections: 2005 Survey of Local Election Jurisdictions, full-text GAO-06-452SP, June 6, 2006. “The purpose of the survey was to collect nationwide information on a range of election topics that included voter registration, absentee voting, early voting, poll workers, polling places, voter education, voting methods …
Press release: “The FBI released the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report for 2005 today, which showed a mixed direction in crime nationwide: the number of violent crime offenses rose 2.5 percent, but the number of property crime offenses decreased 1.6 percent when compared with data from 2004. The FBI collected these preliminary data from 12,485 …
Press release, June 1, 2006: “The Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force (IPET)…is releasing this draft final report of its performance evaluation of the New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Protection System during Hurricane Katrina. Our sincere hope is that the results of this report, used already in the repairs of the system, the assessments of …
“The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report provides USDA’s comprehensive forecasts of supply and demand for major U.S. and global crops and U.S. livestock. The report gathers information from a number of statistical reports published by USDA and other government agencies, and provides a framework for additional USDA reports.” The most recent WASDE …
Economic Research Service, June 7, 2006: “The statistical indicators formerly provided in Agricultural Outlook magazine will continue to be updated regularly. These tables include data on individual commodities, the general economy, agricultural trade, farm income and expenses, farm prices, food prices and expenditures, and other statistical indicators of the food and agriculture system. Data as …
CIA FOIA Top 25 Search Phrases: “This collection reports the most frequent phrases used to search for documents on this site during the previous month, along with the number of times that search phrase was entered. It does not reflect phrases entered into third-party search engines used to find this site, but rather reflects phrases …
Hearing, Cyber Security Challenges at the Department of Energy, June 9, 2006. [note: links to member statements and witness testimony not yet available – after an open session, there was a closed session to discuss security issues related to a previously unreported data breach.] AP: DOE Computers Hacked; Info on 1,500 Taken
“It is FDA’s policy to help prevent or alleviate shortages primarily of medically necessary drug products, since these can have significant public health consequences. A drug shortage may involve either an actual or a potential shortage of a drug product.” [Link to Current Drug Shortages website]
EPA OIG, Congressional Request Regarding EPA Grants to the National Rural Water Association, May 30, 2006 [Report – PDF, 61 pages] [At a Glance – PDF] EPA: New Guidance Helps Small Drinking Water Systems Identify Affordable-Treatment Options
