E.P.A. to Bar Data From Pesticide Studies Involving Children and Pregnant Women
By MICHAEL JANOFSKY
Published: September 7, 2005
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 - Researchers will no longer be allowed to include children and pregnant women in studies examining the effects of pesticides to help set federal standards, according to the first regulations for human testing of pesticides that the Environmental Protection Agency plans to propose.
The regulations, to be proposed on Wednesday, would also establish an independent oversight panel to ensure that all studies submitted to the agency were conducted ethically and followed internationally accepted protocols for human testing.
Agency officials discussed the new regulations with reporters on Tuesday. They declined to make copies of the proposal available, leading at least one major critic of the agency, Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, to suggest that a close examination of the regulations might reveal weaknesses identified in an earlier version...
The proposed regulations...came several months after Congress put restrictions on human pesticide tests as part of an appropriations bill. Congressional concern grew after reports that parents in Florida would be paid to participate in a program, known as Cheers, by allowing their children to be tested to measure household exposure to pesticides...
Still looks like window dressing to me. Why not release details of the proposal? What are you hiding EPA??????
[edit on 9-9-2005 by loam]
mod edit: fixed link and shortened quote
[edit on 9-9-2005 by DontTreadOnMe]





