WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time is establishing criteria for tests by pesticide makers on human subjects.
Three California Democrats, Sen. Barbara Boxer and Reps. Henry Waxman and Hilda Solis, denounced the new rule after obtaining a copy of the final draft. They had led the effort in Congress to require that the EPA outlaw the use of pregnant women and children as subjects and that it meet high ethical standards.
"The fact that EPA allows pesticide testing of any kind on the most vulnerable, including abused and neglected children, is simply astonishing," Boxer said.
If EPA won't stop it, the states must.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_EPA_Human_Testing.html
Posted by Dave at January 24, 2006 11:11 PM