US: EPA strengthens ban against research-related spraying of pregnant women and children

摘要

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson earlier this month advanced amendments governing human research ethics that, among other things, prohibit spraying pregnant women and children with pesticides to research chemicals' effect on humans. "With this action, EPA is underscoring the critical importance and fundamental compatibility of sound science and high ethical standards," announced James Jones, acting assistant administrator for EPA's office of chemical safety and pollution prevention, in a press release. "These amendments will ensure that EPA decisions will only consider human research that has been conducted according to the highest ethical standards."