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The Legal Implications of Report Back in Household Exposure Studies

2016; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Volume: 124; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1289/ehp187

1552-9924

Shaun A. Goho,

Risk Perception and Management

Scientists conducting research into household air or dust pollution must decide whether, when, and how to disclose to study participants their individual results. A variety of considerations factor into this decision, but one factor that has not received attention until now is the possibility that study participants' receipt of their results might create legal duties under environmental, property, landlord-tenant, or other laws.