According to federal regulations, an IRB must have at least two community members to fulfill membership requirements; one member whose expertise is not in a scientific area and one member who is not affiliated with the institution.

(A) True

(B) False

False

Explanation:

According to federal regulations each IRB shall have at-least 5 members, further, there shall be at-least one member with scientific expertise and one member with no expertise in science.

Total number shall not fall below 5 members.

Here it states, to have at-least two members are require to fulfill the requirement of membership. Thus, the above statement is false.

In case it is talking about only about the character being scientific expertise or not then it is true.

But total members are 5 and not 2 thus statement is false.