31.   Many of these mines also have lax safety standards and high fatality rates due to accidents.

32.   Many of the explosions occurred in small, unregulated fireworks factories known for their lax safety standards.

33.   Nationwide criticism over the lax safety measures on farms prompted Agriculture Minister Tsutomu Takebe to apologize Saturday.

34.   Officials blamed lax safety standards, a problem that has caused a number of avoidable, fatal explosions in recent months.

35.   Recently, the Russian weekly magazine Itogi criticized its poor service and lax safety standards.

36.   Recently, the Russian weekly magazine Itogi criticized its lax safety standards.

37.   Scores of people are often crammed into large vessels, and with lax safety laws, many drownings occur each year.

38.   Russian mines suffer frequent accidents due to poor equipment and lax safety standards.

39.   Tales of leaky, overloaded boats capsizing are grimly familiar in Indonesia, an archipelago nation where vessels with lax safety features are often the only way to travel.

40.   The accident was believed to be a result of lax safety standards, ITAR-Tass said.