Word: audited
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According to the Globe, the most serious ethical infraction that surfaced during the federal audit pertained to an anonymous gambling survey conducted without the IRB’s approval. The researcher in charge of the survey said he was not aware that research dealing with anonymous subjects was required to face the board’s scrutiny, but federal health officials at the OHRP were never informed of the incident...
...recently completed audit of research experimentation at the Harvard Medical School (HMS), federal health officials discovered a smattering of unethical procedures that members of the faculty had been employing in research involving human subjects...
John Lacey, a spokesperson for HMS, wrote in an e-mail that the federal audit was “routine,” indicating that the Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP), the branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which launched the investigation in March, had not been prompted by any initial suspicions of procedural failures...
...routine nature of this recent audit is a marked departure from the last time Harvard was confronted by the OHRP two years ago, when the group was alerted by a third party that patients were being insufficiently protected during genetic research experimentation in China...
According to this year’s waste audit by Harvard Recycling & Waste Management and the Resource Efficiency Program, 42 percent of the trash found in garbage bins across campus could have been recycled...