EPA TO ALLOW PESTICIDE TESTING ON ORPHANS & MENTALLY HANDICAPPED CHILDREN

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ALERT: EPA TO ALLOW PESTICIDE TESTING ON ORPHANS & MENTALLY

HANDICAPPED CHILDREN

 

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Friday, November 18, 2005

 

Public Comment Period for this rule Closes

December 12, 2005

 

Public comments are now being accepted by the Environmental

Protection Agency (EPA) on its newly proposed federal regulation

regarding the testing of chemicals and pesticides on human subjects.

On August 2, 2005, Congress had mandated the EPA create a rule that

permanently bans chemical testing on pregnant women and children.

But the EPA's newly proposed rule, misleadingly titled " Protections

for Subjects in Human Research, " puts industry profits ahead of

children's welfare. The rule allows for government and industry

scientists to treat children as human guinea pigs in chemical

experiments in the following situations:

 

Children who " cannot be reasonably consulted, " such as those that

are mentally handicapped or orphaned newborns may be tested on. With

permission from the institution or guardian in charge of the

individual, the child may be exposed to chemicals for the sake of

research.

Parental consent forms are not necessary for testing on children who

have been neglected or abused.

Chemical studies on any children outside of the U.S. are acceptable.

 

http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa6.cfm

 

 

For the first time in our nation's history, the EPA has proposed a

program to allow for the systematic and everyday experimentation of

pesticides on humans, " said Congressman Henry A. Waxman, a leading

critic of the testing policies. " Moreover, the proposed program is

riddled with ethical loopholes. "

 

The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules for pesticide

testing in human beings deserve to be alongside the Nuremberg Laws

of 1935. (Those laws lent an air of legitimacy to racial

discrimination, and ultimately, to the Holocaust.

 

http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/09/15a.php

 

Donna