MP demands debate on 1960s Coventry radioactive chapati study

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Taiwo Owatemi 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 1960sAn MP said she would call for a debate regarding the use of "radioactive isotopes in chapatis" once fed to South Asian women to study iron absorption.

"It seems that consent was not sought nor proper information given to women at the time they took part," she said.The independent report, published in 1998, The inquiry had been commissioned in response to a documentary on Channel 4 in 1995 which had raised concerns about participants, including pregnant women, being able to consent to the experiments.Ms Owatemi, MP for Coventry North West, said there was "deep worry" amongst the South Asian community in Coventry.

"I will be calling for a debate on this as soon as possible after parliament returns in September," she said, adding that it had seemed "no follow up morbidity study" was performed to look at the long-term medical affects.

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