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Revising FDA Testing Mandates Will Spare Animals and Save Human Lives
Proponents of civil society no longer accept the moral premise that’s it’s okay to conduct painful or harmful experiments on their human brethren without their

Congress Must Rehaul Animal Testing Paradigm for New Drug Development
Congress Must Rehaul Animal Testing Paradigm for New Drug Development Since 1938, the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act (FFDCA) has required animal testing for

Animal Testing Mandate Translates Into Torment for Primates, Dogs
Congress Can Reduce Pointless Animal Testing by Allowing Innovative Safety and Efficacy Non-Animal Methods for Assessing Drug Safety It wasn’t your typical highway crash. Surely,

Sharks, Monkeys, and Horseshoe Crabs Are Casualties of COVID Vaccine Chase
The race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, with the runners sent down the wrong path by the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) archaic animal-testing regulatory

FDA’s Animal Testing Requirement Harms People and Animals and Wastes Dollars
COVID-19 has infected 1.5 million people, with that number to swell before the virus’s person-to-person global hopscotching pauses. In response, scientists in laboratories are racing

Listen Up! Episode #12: How FDA’s Onerous Animal-Testing Requirements Are Killing Animals And People
Guest Tamara Drake of the Center for Responsible Science Unpacks the Problem The world is racing to formulate a vaccine for COVID-19, but what hurdles