41.   Neither United States Pharmacopeia nor the FDA tests the products to see if they are in compliance.

42.   Officials of Child Health, based in Shawnee Mission, Kan., said hospital personnel carefully test every product the group endorses.

43.   One place where tire makers test their products is on racetracks.

44.   Pitts said Mission was testing its products for the presence of StarLink.

45.   Plexus contracts with makers of computers, medical devices, and telecommunications equipment, doing product development and design, and assembling and testing their products.

46.   Price Chopper tested the product for three months at its stores in Vermont.

47.   Proton smart card products are being tested in Canada, Australia, Sweden, Belgium, Brazil, the Netherlands and Switzerland, American Express said.

48.   Relatively mature companies, those that are already testing their products with customers, are having the toughest time attracting new funding, said Lawler.

49.   Researchers have been testing this product to prevent heat exhaustion in firefighters.

50.   Several private organizations have begun programs to analyze and test these products, and to monitor the conditions under which they are manufactured.