• February 5, 2007
  

  Iowa State statistician's work highlighted on NBC's "Law and Order"

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  Alicia Carriquiry, professor of statistics at Iowa State University, will take a closer look at Tuesday evening's prime time television programming.
  
  The Feb. 6 episode of the long-running NBC crime drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" will focus on the controversial EPA rule allowing intentional dosing of human beings in pesticide experiments. In the episode, "Loophole," several children and their families, including a Honduran immigrant family, are unwittingly tested with a dangerous organophosphate pesticide by a fictional chemical company.
  
  A 2005 Congressional report written by Senator Barbara Boxer's and Congressman Henry Waxman's staff revealed human testing studies where pesticide corporations told their subjects they were ingesting vitamins or drugs.
  
  Carriquiry was part of a National Academy of Sciences committee that investigated this practice.
  
  "We wrote down scientific and ethical guidelines that EPA could use when deciding whether to accept the results of experiments carried out by private companies and in which humans are intentionally dosed with toxic substances," Carriquiry says.
  
  At the end of the program the names of all committee members, including Carriquiry, appear along with contact information on each individual.
  
  "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" will air at 9 p.m. CST.

Alicia Carriquiry