Do a click on the proposed new rule:
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-GENE...-12/g18010.htm


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.

â?¢ Unit VI. discusses rulemaking to ban research with
pesticides involving intentional dosing of children, and to adopt
additional protections, beyond those in the Common Rule, for children
as subjects of other types of research. This ban would apply both to
EPA and to regulated third parties.
â?¢ Unit VII. addresses rulemaking to ban research with
pesticides involving intentional dosing of pregnant women, fetuses, or
newborns, and to adopt additional protections, beyond those in the
Common Rule, for pregnant women, fetuses, and newborns as subjects of
other types of research. This ban, too, would apply both to EPA and to
regulated third parties.


It looks like their modifying the rules to the better. Aren't they looking to BAN these practices?