WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time is establishing criteria for tests by pesticide makers on human subjects.Susan Hazen, the EPA’s principal deputy assistant ...

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration announced Friday a temporary ban on the use of human tests for setting pesticide regulations and asked the National Academy of Sciences to review the scientific ...

WASHINGTON – Manufacturers would be allowed to test some pesticides on human volunteers when seeking government approval without applying all the ethical safeguards recommended last year by an expert ...

WASHINGTON (CN) – The Environmental Protection Agency no longer will allow legal guardians to provide consent for their wards to participate as test subjects in pesticide testing by outside ...

More than 100 volunteers in San Diego were intentionally exposed to a pesticide in one of two dozen scientific experiments worldwide that have come under attack by California members of Congress who ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Pregnant women will not be allowed to participate in third-party pesticide testing submitted to the Environmental Protection Agency, according new rules proposed by the agency as ...

In deciding whether to approve specific pesticides, the Environmental Protection Agency is using data from two dozen industry tests that intentionally exposed people to poisons, including one ...

The Environmental Protection Agency for the first time is establishing criteria for tests by pesticide makers on human subjects, but the proposal immediately was criticized by lawmakers who demanded ...