The experimenters, investigators, experts and persons called upon to collaborate in the trials are bound by professional secrecy under the conditions and penalties laid down inarticle 226-13 of the French Penal Code with regard to the nature of the products studied, the protocols and the results obtained.
Without the agreement of the sponsor, they may only provide information relating to the trials to the Ministers of Agriculture and Health, the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail and the inspectors and control officers mentioned in article L. 5146-1.
The trials may not be the subject of any written or oral comment without the joint agreement of the investigator or the investigator and the sponsor.