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1 paź 2019 · The practice of testing with animals has long prompted complex debates driven by passionate views on morality and scientific imperative. Reaction to Tuesday’s announcement was no different.
New methods. Animal welfare activists have long insisted that researchers jettison research on animals for alternative methods, such as human stem cells grown in a dish, computer modelling, or expanded clinical trials. But it’s only in the past few years that most of these tools have become truly good enough for prime-time use.
13 sty 2024 · The Animal Welfare Act (AWA), a federal law that sets the care standards for the handling of animals in research facilities, excludes 95 percent of animals used for medical testing, such as rats and mice, from protection.
11 paź 2022 · In this article, I present four examples of animal tests that were introduced in the past to protect patients and consumers, and I discuss attempts to replace those animal tests with other methods. When we started using small animals such as mice and rats for testing more than 100 years ago, there were not many alternatives.
17 lis 2021 · Since the early 2000s, the European Union has had a ban on testing cosmetic products on animals. Since its initial passing, the ban has grown to include products with ingredients that have been tested on animals, and the import and sale of products that have been tested on animals.
1 sie 2023 · Such significant failures in clinical trials raise the question: what scientific evidence do we have that animal tests are the best way to predict and protect human health? It is about time the paradigm of animal testing as a “gold standard” in medicine was challenged, researched, and re-evaluated.
21 gru 2023 · Banning or phasing out animal tests. This year, we worked across the U.S. and around the world to move away from animal testing: Oregon became the 11 th state to ban the sale of cosmetics tested on animals.
