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Written Question · S1W-26817 · Session 1

What long-term health monitoring is being undertaken on the people who took part in the pesticide testing carried out on behalf of Bayer.

Answered Asked by Kenny MacAskill SNP Lodged 17 Jun 2002

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive what long-term health monitoring is being undertaken on the people who took part in the pesticide testing carried out on behalf of Bayer.

The answer

Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 Jul 2002 · 14 days after it was lodged, on time

I understand that this question relates to a study carried out by a contract research organisation in Scotland in which eight healthy adult volunteers were exposed to the organophosphate pesticide azinphos methyl. The study was based on an "ascending-dose protocol" wherein the dose to volunteers was increased from very low levels to those at which the first signs of changes in acetylcholinesterase were observable. It was overseen by an independent ethics committee.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S1W-26817 by reference.