"Jackson Signs Proposed Rule Amending Human Subjects Protections RuleOn January 18, 2011, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson signed a proposed rule that would revise EPA's February 6, 2006, final rule concerning protections for subjects in human research. According to EPA, the proposed amendments would broaden the applicability of the rules to cover human testing with pesticides submitted to EPA under any regulatory statute it administers. The proposed amendments would also disallow participation in third-party pesticide studies by subjects who cannot consent for themselves. Finally, the proposed amendments would identify specific considerations to be addressed in EPA science and ethics reviews of proposed and completed human research with pesticides, drawn from the recommendations of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The pre-publication version of the proposed rule, which EPA expects to publish in early February 2011, is available online. Comments will be due 60 days after EPA publishes the proposed rule in the Federal Register."http://www.actagroup.com/updates/012711-fifra.htm
Also note there are studies that are exempt from the common rule. I'm not sure the EPA pesticide protections would be
enforced in these nonexempt studies.
Comments
"EPA TO ALLOW PESTICIDE TESTING ON ORPHANS & MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN"
http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa6.cfm
enforced in these nonexempt studies.