RE: Important article even if not radiation related

["Stabin, Michael" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>]

Very interesting, I agree, and there certainly are implications for

radiation safety. This raises for me more questions than answers. Are

they talking about just acute toxicity effects, or cancer and other long

term effects of toxins? How many subjects would be used in a typical

study? How would controls be designed? Etc. It is provocative, but I

have my doubts that this panel's recommendation actually will ever be

implemented in practice. There are a lot of hurdles to overcome, and

most of them look pretty high to me.



Mike



(PS. Folks please let's not trot out all the old jokes about using

lawyers as research subjects, OK?)



Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP

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Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences 

Vanderbilt University 

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-----Original Message-----

From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM] 

Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 9:33 AM

To: radsafe; know_nukes

Subject: Important article even if not radiation related





The following appeared in today's Washington Post. 

The implications regarding the setting of regulatory

limits may be influenced not only for the use of

chemicals and pesticides, but may have implication for

ALARA decision making.



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 Pesticide Testing on Humans  Is Ethical, Science

Panel Says

 

 By Shankar Vedantam

 

  It is ethical to test pesticides and pollutants on

human volunteers in order to determine whether

environmental safety standards can be lowered, a top

panel of scientists said yesterday in an opinion that

is expected to strongly influence government policy.

 

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