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Human tests may set pesticide rules
No toxic effects in people paid to swallow insecticide: Bayer
A new federal law raises standards protecting children from pesticides that
are used on crops.
By Brent Walth
NEWHOUSE NEWS SERVICE
July 8, 1999 — Not too long ago it looked as if the growing battle over
pesticides in the United States would be turned with help from 50 people in
Scotland. The Scots earlier this summer were subjects in the growing, and
highly controversial, field of human pesticide tests. Where mice and rats
once stood in for people, human subjects increasingly are being used to
establish just how big a pesticide dose they can withstand without harm.
THE SCOTTISH test, conducted last fall for Bayer Corp., a major
pesticide manufacturer, involved volunteers who were paid about $750 to
swallow Guthion, an insecticide used heavily on fruit crops. Bayer officials
say the study showed no serious side effects in the subjects. <SNIP>
http://www.msnbc.com/news/288364.asp
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Judith Richards, London, Ontario, Canada
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