International Scientific Commission

Weindling, R The Origins of Informed Consent The International Scientific Commission on Medical War Crimes, and the Nuremberg Code. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 75 (2001) ... 

Report of the International Scientific Commission for the Investigation of the Facts concerning Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China (Peking, 1952). 

Canada NewWire (CNW). The International Scientific Commission Presents Its Final Report on the Cyanide Spill, September 25, http //www.newswire.ca/releases/Septemberl998/25/c6477.html. 

Beijing, then to Mukden (Manchuria) where he obtained Yersinia pestis (plague) bacteria. Two condemned North Korean prisoners were infected with the plague. One of them was put to death and his body used as evidence of biological warfare, which was presented to the visiting International Scientific Commission team mentioned above. 

The United States also suggested that the World Health Organisation investigate the allegations. The Communist countries stated after some delay that they did not consider the IRC sufficiently free from political influence . IRC plans for an investigation were dropped. A supposedly independent commission the International Scientific Commission (ISC) - was set up and invited to Korea and China. The ISC s report gave accounts of alleged incidents and of statements made by American prisoners of war who, it was claimed, appeared not to have been subject to any form of duress. 

GHK International, Diamond, M. L., et al (2003) Forecast and analysis of urban development in the Great Lakes Basin. Prepared for Scientific Subcommittee of the International Joint Commission, GHK International. 

Andrew, R.W., Hodson, P.V., and Konasewich, D.E. "Toxicity to Biota of Metal Forms in Natural Water." Workshop Standing Committee on the Scientific Basis for Water Quality Criteria of the International Joint Commission s Research Advisory Board, Duluth, Minnesota, 329 p., 1976. 

Prof. Heublein held the chair of Organic Chemistry from 1968. He was author or co-author of more than 300 scientific papers, of 4 books, and held more than 70 patents. He worked actively on many scientific commissions and was member of the International Steering Committee of the International Symposium on Cationic Polymerisation, the 7th of which took place with great success in Jena in 1985. From 1981 he was on the editorial board of the J. Macromol. Sci.-Chem. and, from 1983, one of the editors of Advances in Polymer Science. 

The principle of reverse onus, or reverse burden of proof, says that when there are scientifically based suspicions of harm about a chemical or product or process, the burden is on the producer or user to convince government authorities, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the product or process should not be restricted and that it is the least-damaging alternative available. This principle was recommended for adoption by the US and Canada in 1990 by the International Joint Commission (IJC, created by the Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 to oversee international matters in the Great Lakes). To date, the United States and Canada have not acted on the IJC s recommendation, but Sweden adopted the principle of reverse onus for chemicals in 1990. 

International Union of Toxicology (lUTOX). 1821 Michael Farady Drive, Suite 300, Reston, VA 20190. U.S.A. Phone +1 703-438-3103. E-mail iutoxhq iutox.org. URL http //www. toxicology.org/iutox. Founded 1980. 19,000 members. Purpose is to foster international scientific co-operation among toxicologists. Publishes conference notes, position statements, commission reports, and the lUTOX Newsletter. 

There are two sources of information from the CAC that provide guidance on the validation of analytical methods. General guidance on method validation, including single-laboratory method validation, may be found in the CAC Procedural Manual.This is supplemented by Codex Alimentarius Commission guidelines, a number of which have been adopted from harmonized guidelines previously developed by independent international scientific... 

The Commission never came forward with specific recommendations to the Council of Ministers meeting in early 1987. Instead, it decided to organise an international scientific discussion meeting on the subject in April 1987. At the same time, the Article 31 Expert Group reconsidered their recommendations and came forward with simplified limits. The Commission decided that even these were pitched at an unacceptably high level and advanced in support the disagreement on appropriate intervention levels which had become apparent at the April 1987 scientific discussion meeting. 

R. V. Grace, Oceanic Debris Observations in the Indian Ocean Whale Sanctuary and Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Report to International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee SC/46/0, Puerto VaUarta, Mexico, 1994. 

CAA (2003) CAP670 Air traffic services safety requirements. Civil Aviation Authority Cullen (1990) The public inquiry into the Piper Alpha disaster. HM Stationery Office, London Haddon-Cave C (2009) The Nimrod review. The Stationery Office, London lEC (2002) lEC 61508 Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems. Part 1. International Electrotechnical Commission Kuhn TS (1962) The structure of scientific revolutions. University of Chicago Press MoD (2007) Defence standard 00-56 Issue 4. Safety management requirements for defence systems part 1 requirements part 2 guidance on establishing a means of complying with part 1. Ministry of Defence... 

Dictionary of Glass-Making (EngHsh, French, German), International Commission on Glass, Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., New York, 1983. 

EE Abola, EC Bernstein, SH Bryant, TF Koetzle, J Weng. Protein data bank. In EH Allen, G Bergerhoff, R Sievers, eds. Crystallographic Databases Information, Content, Software Systems, Scientific Applications, Bonn Data Commission of the International Union of Crystallography, 1987, pp 107-132. 

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