- The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
- The results of any experiments should be for the greater good of society.
- Human experiment should be based on previous results of animal experimentation.
- The experiment should be conducted so as to avoid all unnecessary physical and mental suffering and injury.
- No experiment should be conducted where it is believed to cause death, disability, or where injury will occur.
- The risk should never exceed the benefits of the experiment.
- Adequate facilities should be used to protect subjects against even remote possibilities of injury, disability, or death.
- The experiment should be conducted only by a scientifically qualified person.
- The human subject should be able to terminate the experiment at any time.
- The scientist in charge must be prepared to terminate the experiment at any stage, if continuing is likely to result in injury, disability, or death to the human subject.