- Hi Jeff
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- Many thanks for choosing to host the "Death Angel"
shot. I have had many inquiries regarding the law and the best avenue
available is in USC Chapter 32, the pertinent section, which states as
follows
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- Sec. 1520a. Restrictions on use of human subjects for
testing of chemical or biological agents
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- (a) Prohibited activities The Secretary of Defense may
not conduct (directly or by contract) -
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- (1) any test or experiment involving the use of a chemical
agent or biological agent on a civilian population; or
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- (2) any other testing of a chemical agent or biological
agent on human subjects.
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- (b) Exceptions Subject to subsections (c), (d), and (e)
of this section, the prohibition in subsection (a) of this section does
not apply to a test or experiment carried out for any of the following
purposes:
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- (1) Any peaceful purpose that is related to a medical,
therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial, or research activity.
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- (2) Any purpose that is directly related to protection
against toxic chemicals or biological weapons and agents.
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- (3) Any law enforcement purpose, including any purpose
related to riot control.
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- (c) Informed consent required
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- The Secretary of Defense may conduct a test or experiment
described in subsection (b) of this section only if informed consent to
the testing was obtained from each human subject in advance of the testing
on that subject.
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- (d) Prior notice to Congress
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- Not later than 30 days after the date of final approval
within the Department of Defense of plans for any experiment or study to
be conducted by the Department of Defense (whether directly or under contract)
involving the use of human subjects for the testing of a chemical agent
or a biological agent, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee
on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of
the House of Representatives a report setting forth a full accounting of
those plans, and the experiment or study may then be conducted only after
the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date such report is received
by those committees.
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- (e) ''Biological agent'' defined In this section, the
term ''biological agent'' means any micro-organism (including bacteria,
viruses, fungi, rickettsiac, or protozoa), pathogen, or infectious substance,
and any naturally occurring, bioengineered, or synthesized component of
any such micro-organism, pathogen, or infectious substance, whatever its
origin or method of production, that is capable of causing -
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- (1) death, disease, or other biological malfunction in
a human, an animal, a plant, or another living organism;
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- (2) deterioration of food, water, equipment, supplies,
or materials of any kind; or
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- (3) deleterious alteration of the environment.
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- No one that I know has provided any "Informed consent"...
This is what we plan to inquire of as well as the many other legal questions
that arise as a result of continued investigation.
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- Here is USC Chapter 32 complements of Cornell University
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/ch32.html#PC32
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- Regards,
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- Dennis Foisy
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