What was the purpose of the fernald school?

Evaluate the impact of radioactivity on the human organism.

Explanation:

During the 1940s and 1950s, several dozen children at Fernald School in Waltham, Massachusetts, some with developmental disabilities, were fed oatmeal whose molecules were bound to radioactive tracers of calcium and iron. The commercial interest of the cereal company was to show that its corn flakes were more nutritious because its nutrients traveled throughout the body.

In neither case, fathers or mothers of such children were informed that they would be used as guinea pigs in a risky process of experimentation and all the information they received was that they would be subjected to a novel diet.

c. the passage of the fifteenth amendment