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The ethics of human volunteer studies involving experimental exposure to pesticides: unanswered dilemmas

Leslie London1*, David Coggon2, Angelo Moretto3,7, Peter Westerholm4, Martin F Wilks5 and Claudio Colosio6,8

Author Affiliations

1 Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

2 MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

3 Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

4 Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Akademiska sjukhuset, Uppsala, Sweden

5 Swiss Centre for Applied Human Toxicology, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 61, Basel, Switzerland

6 Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

7 International Centre for Pesticides and Health Risk Prevention, "Luigi Sacco" Hospital, Milan, Italy

8 International Centre for Rural Health, San Paolo Hospital, Via di Rudini 8, 20124 Milan, Italy

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Environmental Health 2010, 9:50 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-9-50

Published: 18 August 2010

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Additional file 1:

Paper Evaluation Sheet. This file includes the data capture tool used for reviewing experimental studies involving human exposure to pesticides.

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Additional file 2:

An ethical analysis: use of data from human volunteer studies involving exposure to pesticides. This file includes a detailed exposition of the ethical analysis in assessing the ethical basis for experimental studies involving human exposure to pesticides.

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