INTERNATIONAL NEWS - There has been a condemnation of experiments funded by German carmakers in which humans and monkeys reportedly inhaled diesel exhaust fumes.
German media say the health impact research was done by EUGT, a body funded by Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW.
Social Democrat politician Stephan Weil - a VW board member - called the studies "absurd and abhorrent".
Daimler also condemned them. VW is embroiled in a scandal over software that gave false diesel exhaust data.
EUGT was dissolved by the carmakers last year. On Thursday the New York Times reported that the EUGT research was designed to counter a 2012 decision by the World Health Organization to classify diesel exhaust as a carcinogen.
It said that in 2014, EUGT had exposed 10 monkeys to fumes from a diesel VW Beetle at a lab in New Mexico.
German row over car exhaust tests on humans and monkeys
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There has been a condemnation of experiments funded by German carmakers in which humans and monkeys reportedly inhaled diesel exhaust fumes.
Posted on: 14:00 Mon, 29 January 2018
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