Arrested in the way. EPA has suspended a study on the health effects of pesticides in the children.
The protection Agency (EPA) ended recently launched a study on health risks for children of pesticides in and plans to give it another turn the external review. The study - called Health Study risk of environmental exposure of children (CHEERS) - is under fire for alleged breaches of ethics, to be partly financed by industry grants. "It's great that [EPA] pushed the pause button on this study, but we still have concerns," said Richard Wiles of the Environmental Working Group (EWG), a nonprofit advocacy group.
CHEERS was designed to figure out how children become exposed to pesticides inside, such as roach sprays Working with research entrepreneurs, EPA scientists. - as well as the centers for health Department Duval County, Florida Disease Control and Prevention, and - intended to study 60 children under 3 years old to participate, parents must have used pesticides indoors, but they should not keep it. do during the trial. Parents and scientists to observe the children's activity patterns and their urine were sampled for pesticide metabolite levels. the researchers began registering families last month.
With the inclusion in the current study, EWG objected to the fact that the study of $ 7 million was funded by a grant of $ 2 million from the American Chemistry Council, an industry group ( science , 5 November), which represents pesticide manufacturers. They also denounced the fact that parents would be paid to participate in the study, which they argued would especially encourage low-income families to enroll. EPA argued that the payments were minimal compensation and not a compromising incentive. EWG and some scientists have also argued that the study was unethical because parents are not explicitly warned about the potential dangers of exposure of young children to pesticides. EPA notes that the study was approved by Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects by all participating organizations.
Now, the agency will send the study to another control tower, this time by an ad hoc committee composed of members of the three organizations review boards - Health Protection Advisory Committee of the childhood, the scientific Advisory Group and the Advisory Council on science. This movement is an "extraordinary measure" EPA official William Farland, wrote in a memo Nov. 8. The Committee will report this spring to EPA, which then decided to change the study.
related site
The study site CHEERS
0 Komentar