An Anonymous Coward writes:
The German government has denounced experiments funded by German carmakers in which humans and monkeys reportedly inhaled diesel exhaust fumes.
On Thursday The New York Times reported that the EUGT research was designed to counter a 2012 decision by the World Health Organization to classify diesel exhaust as a carcinogen.
It said that in 2014, EUGT had exposed 10 monkeys to fumes - in an air-tight chamber - from several cars, including a diesel VW Beetle. The testing took place at a lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Then at the weekend Germany's Stuttgarter Zeitung and SWR radio reported that 19 men and six women had inhaled diesel fumes in another EUGT experiment.
During a month of tests at a lab in Aachen, west Germany, they were exposed to various concentrations of diesel fumes, which contain toxic nitrogen oxides (NOx). The BBC has not seen the study itself, but German media say it was published in 2016.
At the time the carmakers were arguing that modern technology had cut pollution from diesel engines to safe levels. But VW was later found to have fitted "cheat" devices that rigged the emissions data.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42858668
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday January 30 2018, @03:56PM (6 children)
Interesting how they outsourced the study to an underdeveloped country full of desperately poor people instead of doing it at home. US pharma companies do drug trials in a similar fashion.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday January 30 2018, @04:35PM
outsourced the study to an underdeveloped country
They forgot to take that left turn in Albuquerque.
"Herr meets Hare"
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @04:40PM (3 children)
Funny, but they did the human study in Germany. In the US they used monkeys.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday January 30 2018, @05:21PM (1 child)
Oh, I must have misread that then. I thought they did the human study in New Mexico.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @06:03PM
No, that was Wash D.C.
(Score: 2) by EETech1 on Wednesday January 31 2018, @05:45AM
The human testing also used purified NOx from a gas bottle, they were not exposed to actual vehicle exhaust.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Tuesday January 30 2018, @04:59PM
I don't remember that the monkeys in Albuquerque were that desperately poor when I lived there.
Some of the humans were, but the monkeys were doing fairy well by world standards.