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Why did OHRP SHRED informed consent documents?

Sat, 25 Oct 2003

China Daily』s premier medical correspondent, XIONG LEI, raises embarrassing questions that should trouble Americans, not just the bioethics and research community. She makes a plea for justice for some 200,000 Chinese farmers who were used in 12 genetic experiments without their informed consent. The experiments were conducted by Harvard researchers and funded by the US government and (in some cases) Millenium.

The federal Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP)is entrusted with ensuring that federal regulations for the protection of human research subjects are followed by all institutions that receive federal funding. OHRP is empowered to investigate when such institutions are accused of violating federal safeguards within the US. and offshore.

The Alliance for Human Research Protection (AHRP) has learned that OHRP, the agency charged with oversight and enforcement of federal research regulations, has SHREDDED original documents that had been sent to OHRP during its investigation into allegations that genetic experiments conducted in China by Harvard researchers failed to comply with federal and international informed consent requirements.