date:Feb 27, 2014
company hires people, whether consultants or employees, who make the safety decisions, then its a conflict of interest, he says.
Neltner emphasizes that a conflict of interest does not mean that a manufacturer is intentionally putting something dangerous on the market. Rather, the conflict is a bias that may shift the decision of whether a substance is safe.
Where you have both a lot of professional judgment and conflicts of interests, now you have a recipe for a problem, for bad decisions, ex