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 Zinho on Tuesday January 30 2018, @05:00PM
Ah, I was wondering why they didn't just refer to previous research. [wikipedia.org] <sarcasm>It makes sense that they'd need a new study if the gaswagen's engine had been modified since the original trial.</sarcasm>
Off topic: kudos to the devs for including the <sarc> tag, that'll save me a bunch of time on typing out < etc.
:)
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