MP Taiwo Owatemi MP says she is 'deeply concerned' over the experiment on South Asian women in Coventry.
Radioactive isotopes were used in chapatis fed to South Asian women in Coventry in the 1960sResearchers are looking for South Asian women who were fed radioactive chapatis in the 1960s as part of a study looking at iron absorption.
found research practice, ethics and regulation had "moved on significantly" and had "directly resulted" in new guidance, the MRC said. Chapatis containing Iron-59 - an iron isotope with a gamma-beta emitter - were delivered to participants' homes. She said a University of Warwick researcher was now seeking to identify women affected, adding she was "deeply disturbed" they may have been targeted for research in 1969, "without being able to give informed consent".
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