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Frequently Asked Questions About Chemical Regulation
Frequently Asked Questions About Chemical Regulation What is toxicity testing? What are some concerns with the use of animals in toxicity testing? What is the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)? Is TSCA in need of modernization? How can chemical regulatory legislation be more effective? What is the Saf |
Frequently Asked Questions About Animal Experimentation Issues
Frequently Asked Questions About Animal Experimentation Issues 1. What concerns are raised by the use of animals for medical and scientific experiments? 2. What are the alternatives to using animals in medical experiments? 3. Is some animal testing required by law? 4. D |
Testimony on High Production Volume Chemical Tests to the House Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
Neal D. Barnard, M.D. June 17, 1999 As a physician and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, I would like to thank Chairman Calvert and the members of the Committee for the opportunity to comment on the EPA’s High Production Volume Challenge program. We are greatly concerned about seve |
Analysis of the HPV Challenge: Industry Violations and EPA Negligence
By Nicole Cardello, M.H.S. Executive Summary The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) High Production Volume (HPV) Challenge encourages chemical companies to volunteer to conduct screening-level animal toxicity tests on 2,800 industrial chemicals. Pursuant to this program, companies have committed to |
March of Dimes-Funded Animal Experiments: Commonly Asked Questions
March of Dimes-Funded Animal Experiments: Commonly Asked Questions Animal Welfare 1. Does the March of Dimes still fund shocking animal experiments? 2. Is there any evidence for the poor treatment of animals in March of Dimes experiments? 3. How can there be any pain or suffe |
PCRM Online Archive
February 2012: Read this issue> Watch James Franco and Kevin Nealon Pledge to Save Chimpanzees; Paula Deen Has Diabetes, PCRM Offers Help; Bob Barker Asks University of Virginia to End Cruel Use of Live Cats; Chinese-Language 21-Day Healthy Challenge Begins March 5; Cheese Billboards Highlight Obesity Risk; Feb. 10 |
The Use of Animals for Physiology Instruction at the Medical College of Wisconsin
A Report by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C. October 11, 2006 (Revised December 20, 2007) I. Executive summary Twenty years ago, live dogs, cats, pigs and other animals were commonly used in physiology, pharmacology, and surgery courses at medical schools. A sta |
Animal Care and Use Committees: Structural Problems Impair Usefulness
Animal Care and Use Committees: Structural Problems Impair Usefulness Introduction The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) requires that institutional animal care and use committees (IACUCs) be established at research facilities that use animals covered under the Act. The Public Health Service and the Interagency Research |
Your Right to Know: Understanding Animal Experiments in Your Community
Selecting a Facility or Experiment Animals in Education Collecting Information Bringing in the Law |
An Examination of Animal Experiments
Inaccurate Results Money Lost, Attention Diverted The Time Factor |
Pound Seizure
By Neal D. Barnard, M.D. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine opposes the practice of releasing animals from shelters or pounds for use in experimentation, sometimes referred to as pound seizure. PCRM is a national nonprofit organization that addresses several issues in medicine and research. Most ci |
Chemical Testing Resources
Chemical Testing Resources PCRM Fact Sheets and Publications | Links | Scientific Articles PCRM Fact Sheets and Publications PCRM Testimony before the Superfund, Toxics, and Environmental Health Subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Assessing the Safe Chemicals Act, |
PCRM Position Paper on Animal Research
Approved by the PCRM Board of Directors, July 21, 2010 The primary purpose of medical research is to promote human health, and the most direct research methods focus on the study of human populations, individuals, and tissues. Animal research has been used as an alternative method when the study of humans is deemed |
Chemical Testing Basics
Chemical Testing Basics Toxicity Testing | Toxic Substance Control Act Reform Legislative revisions to the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) will change the way industrial chemicals are regulated. Since chemicals are regulated based on their potential toxic effects, whether, how, and when toxicity testing is |
Al Gore’s Deadly Animal Test Plan and the Scientist Who Can Stop It
After his plan to resume whaling and his massive pig farm bailout, the vice president’s new plan to kill 800,000 animals in pointless tests may be his worst yet. In the early months of 1999, while the nation’s attention was focused on President Clinton’s problems, Vice President Al Gor |
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