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Monday, October 22, 2012

NBC-17: Congress wants probe of human testing claims at UNC-CH

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. --
Congress is acting against an EPA study in Chapel Hill that involved human test subjects breathing Diesel fumes.  The chairman of the U.S. House's committee Science, Space and Technology sent a five-page letter to the Office of the Inspector General demanding that it probe whether the human testing was appropriate.
Back in 2006, the EPA exposed a number of test subjects to concentrated diesel fumes at its Chapel Hill research center without ever telling them what they were breathing.  One of those test subjects six years ago was UNC undergrad Landon Huffman. "They convinced me that what I was doing was harmless, that I was breathing air from outside," he said.  To Read More…..

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