Animal Testing: The Beginning of the End
It’s the best news I could possibly have received this Valentine’s Day: the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Toxicology Program and the National Institutes of Health have signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” to work toward the end of animal testing and begin developing new methods of evaluating the safety of new chemicals and drugs.
The conversion could take up to 10 years because of the need for scientific validation of the new approaches. But Martin Stephens of the Humane Society of the United States says, “We believe this is the beginning of the end for animal testing.”
Amen.
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