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DETROIT November 24 Three American universities use human cadavers for automotive crash tests funded by the federal government, the Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corporation.
Chrysler Corporation also helped fund these tests until 1979, when the company encountered financial problems.
The US car crash program was recognized this week after the debate broke out in Germany on the use of human corpses in similar tests.
German prosecutors said today they were investigating whether the researchers from the University of Heidelberg have violated the law by using more than 200 dead in car crash testing in the last 20 years, German car clubs reacted with horror to reports and the Vatican denounced the practice as contrary to conscience.
Dr. Albert King, Scientific Director of the Bioengineering Center at Wayne State University in Detroit, said he oversees about a dozen crash tests each year with corpses.
Wayne State has conducted the tests on behalf of car manufacturers and government agencies for over 50 years, Dr. King said bodies are donated for research at Wayne State School of Medicine and families are informed that this research is one of the possible uses, he said.
Dr King said the university has never received any complaints or objections of families When the test is complete, the bodies are returned to medical school, he said the program were bodies that were in great free part of the disease.
Since 1990 the center has tested about 30 to 40 corpses, he said the research is done to find out more about car safety and capacity of the human body to resist injury.
Wayne State receives about 750 000 per year for the test program, about 60 percent of government agencies, including the National Injury Prevention Institute in Atlanta, and 40 percent of G and M Ford, he said.
The Institute of injury, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said he paid $ 1 6 million for the Wayne State program since 1987.
M. King defended the tests, saying they have helped save lives by providing data to improve the safety of the cars.
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Due to the sensitive nature of these tests, GM Ford and Chrysler said they had left cadaveric testing to universities, but they said they drew on data published by the institutions to help them design vehicles.
The data is there if you need it, a Chrysler spokesman, Chris Preuss, said.
Sherman Henson, a Ford engineer, said he was aware of the Heidelberg University Program in Germany, and was a respected scientific program They are known worldwide for their leadership in this area at -he says.
A spokesman G M, Richard Thompson, said that the automaker used mechanical models in his own vehicle crash test vehicles, but acknowledged that the company has supported academic tests using cadavers.
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