Munich (Reuters) – gift for innocence: A Bavarian physician wants to prove the innocence of the accused on behalf of the defence in a process. Ten relatives and friends want to prove the innocence of the accused Viehhändlers with the test, the is due to the poison attack on its since then disabled woman in front of the District Court of Munich must answer. So just try to be not possible: possibly professional legal consequences are threatening the physician. Should he perform the attempt without opinions by the Ethics Committee of the Bavarian medical association or the University of Erlangen Nuremberg, this must be punished under professional law, said the President of the Bavarian Medical Association, Hellmut Koch. The Ethics Committee of the Medical Association had so far received no request. The Erlanger toxicologist Ernst Fink wants to take care of the attempt. Contrary to earlier indications of the defense in the process the attempt has not begun yet. “If he makes this attempt without question the Ethics Committee, that would be a violation of the law of the professions”, Koch said. The medical District Association Middle Franconia could punish this with at least a reprimand, a professional procedure with the professional court sanctions ranging from a fine to the application for withdrawal of the approval by the Government of Bavaria. “However a clinical trial is possible, which analyzed the effect of low doses of insect extermination products to humans.” “This goes but only under very narrow circumstances,” said Koch. This extensive documentation on the review would have to be submitted to the Ethics Committee. It must set out what is already known about the substance, what is the purpose of the experiment, as the design look and how the results should be evaluated scientifically be. Last but not least also clarified be, whether the subjects were cleared up and, where appropriate, sufficiently insured. There was always bites in medicine, they ranged from drug test to test, X-ray and Herzkathetern, however they had been held mostly by doctors, to test new methods. A such medically guided attempt by relatives but not known to him, Koch said.