<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 May 2016 at 10:17, Chris Leonard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com" target="_blank">cjlhomeaddress@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id=":5cp" class="">Source of funding has nothing to do with the applicability of laws and<br>
regulations on human subjects protection in research. </div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Please explain this. </div><br>Laws are one thing, regulations are another; laws apply to everyone in a jurisdiction, regulations are self-applied by organizations.
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The HHS <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/guidance/special-protections-for-children/index.html#">regulations page</a> says in its first paragraph that it applies to <b>research institutions</b> that have DHHS funding. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>The HHS website <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/about-ohrp/index.html">about page</a> says:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:20px">The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) provides leadership in the protection of the rights, welfare, and wellbeing of subjects involved in research <b>conducted or supported by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.</b></span></div></blockquote><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px;line-height:20px"><br></span></font>Sugar Labs is not a research institute and doesn't have DHHS funding, so these regulations do not apply; they are merely useful reference material. </div>