As this study involves only anonymous data of patients and is not experimental, the approval of the Ethics Committee is not required, ethics approval for this type of retrospective study is not required under Italian law.
Since the animals were not subjected to experimental procedures, approval was not necessary.
The study was approved the by the Ethical Committee of the University of Sassari for Research on Experimental Animals (Approval no. 20429/X/10/5, 2012).
Ethical and experimental protocol approvals were obtained from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) of Seoul National University (Approval number: SNU-130522-1).
While the commission regulates the Postal Service's market tests of experimental products, regulatory approval is not required for all its operational decisions.
A central question, one official said, has been whether the public should have access to the unlicensed vaccine under the so-called investigational new drug, or I.N.D., rules, which permit people to take experimental medicines with approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
Since the Danish animals were not subjected to experimental procedures, ethical approval was not required.
All experimental procedures received approval by the Laboratory Animal Care and Use Committees of the hospital.
