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Industrial Hygiene Digest May, l>o} 407 Legal Liability to Volunteers in Testing New Drugs. W, F. Bowker. Can. Med. Assn. J. 88. 745-751 |Apr. 6, 1963). Scientists test new drugs by giving them to volunteers. In spite oi every precaution, the drug may harm the volunteer. Under Canadian law, can be recover damages against any of the persons connected with the test? He cannot succeed against the scientist if the latter had made complete disclosure ot the risks and had then obtained the volunteer's Ires consent. Where the subject oi a test is a child nr one of unsound mind, the guardian's consent probably does not protect the scientist from a possible claim by the subject. Where a married woman is a volun teer, her husband's consent is unnecessary. The volunteer cannot succeed against his family physician who referred him to the scientist unless the physician took an active part in an experi ment that was conducted negligently or without a proper consent. .The volunteer cannot succeed against the maker unless he has negligently prepared the drug or given misleading information. -- Author's abst. 408 Senate Attacks Hard Synthetic Detergents, Attacks on hard synthetic detergents bays spread to the Senate. S. II83, sponsored by Senator Maurine Neuberger (0. -Oregon) and 2 other Senators, would forbid the importation or manufacture alter June 30, 19.05, of any synthetic detergent which did not meet standards of decompbsibUity set by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. This bill is patterned after .legislation introduced earlier by Rep. Henry Reuse (D, -Wisconsin) to reduce stream pollu tion caused by hard detergents. Senator. Neuberger calls tba bills "a sound and feasible approach to the detergent problem,'' -- Chsm. Eng. News 409 Glass Door Regulations. Builders selling bouses to buyers who .finance with FHA-guaranteed mortgages will soon be required to comply with new glass dodr regulations. The new rulings will deal with minimum thicknesses, markings, wired glass, tempered glass, and laminated glass. Picture windows, as well as glass doors, will be affected by the new regulations. -- Natl, Safety News BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND NOTICES 410 The Pneumoconioses. A. J. Lanza, Editor, 134 pp. (Jan. 18, 1963), AVAILABLE FROM: Grune & Stratton. Inc.. 381 Park Ave., New YorkU, N.Y. PRICE: *7.50 The Pneumoconioses, edited by .A, J. Lansa, is an interesting review of the subject by authors who have had extensive personal experience in the fields of its diagnosis, treatment, disability evaluation, prevention, pathology,, and compensation. The editor states in the pre face that our knowledge has increased in the 22 years which has elapsed sines the publication of his previous text "Silicosis and Asbestosis" but that it is still far from complets. Most sections of the new book are self-contained and present a wealth of interesting background information. The sections on Pathology will be especially interesting to those not already familiar with the research being conducted by Dr. Paul .Grose, of Industrial Hygiene Foundation. Tba sections on Asbestosis and Dlatomaceous Earth Pneumoconiosis by Dr. Kenneth W, Smith, a Trustee of Industrial Hygiene Foundation, are also worthy of special mention. TUa book will be widely read and discussed by all those interested In the subject of pneumoconiosis. The chapter on Medicolegal Aspects of the Pneumoconioses by T. C. Waters, General Counsel to Industrial Hygiene Foundation, provides an up-to-date critique of Compensation legislation. -- R. T. P. deT. 031E121O 4.