As per the New Drugs and Clinical Trial Rules, 2019, the ethics committee (EC) should be constituted of how many members?
Minimum of seven members from medical, non-medical, scientific and non-scientific areas with at least, one lay person; one woman member; one legal expert; one independent member from any other related field such as social scientist or representative of non-governmental voluntary agency or philosopher or ethicist or theologian.
At least 50% of members not affiliated with the institute or organization in which EC is constituted.
Every member of the EC shall be required to undergo such training and development programs.