Ethical control of researches whose results offer high risk to the health of the population

ABSTRACT This article discusses the emergence of ethical conflicts between the need to ensure the advances in science and the need to control their possible consequences for humanity. A research was carried out to analyze the scientific Latin-American literature and the Brazilian legal and regulatory bases on the ethical regulation of researches that do not involve humans as subjects of the intervention, and found the absence of norms for the regulation of such researches and the lack of scientific literature on the subject. Considering the severity of the impact that certain researches may cause to the health of the population, the conclusion is that there is the need to establish strong measures for their ethical control.