EPA To Allow Pesticide Testing On Orphans & Mentally Handicapped Children?

I don't know how reliable this site is, but I thought I would share it anyways. Maybe someone else can either debunk it or prove it to be credible.

www.organicconsumers.org...

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:

1. 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.
2. Parental consent forms are not necessary for testing on children who have been neglected or abused.
3. Chemical studies on any children outside of the U.S. are acceptable.

Sounds like a total breach of basic human rights, Can't be for real. Can it?

Here is what I found on the EPA website:

SUMMARY: EPA proposes and invites public comment on a rulemaking to ban
intentional dosing human testing for pesticides when the subjects are
pregnant women or children, to formalize and further strengthen
existing protections for subjects in human research conducted or
supported by EPA, and to extend new protections to adult subjects in
intentional dosing human studies for pesticides conducted by others who
intend to submit the research to EPA. This proposal, the first of
several possible Agency actions, focuses on third-party intentional
dosing human studies for pesticides, but invites public comment on
alternative approaches with broader scope.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 12, 2005. Under
the Paperwork Reduction Act, comments on the information collection
provisions must be received by OMB on or before October 12, 2005.

www.epa.gov...

The above website does a very good job of explaining what the rule change does.

I think, from what I read, it is a good rule that SHOULd protect more people.

- One Man Short