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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 |
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 |
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, |
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 |
New Cell Tests Beat Animal Tests
Animal tests have come under repeated and well-deserved criticism for failing to predict dangerous effects of drugs and other chemicals. Of 19 chemicals known to cause cancer in humans, only 7 caused cancer in standard animal tests. The cancer-causing effect of chemicals varies so dramatically betwe |
An Examination of Animal Experiments
Inaccurate Results Money Lost, Attention Diverted The Time Factor |
“MAP” for Improving Drug Testing: Mandatory Alternatives Petition Urges FDA to Require Use of Replacements to Animal Testing
By John J. Pippin, M.D. This op-ed was published in the March 1, 2008 issue of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News. Under fire on several fronts in recent months, the beleaguered FDA is facing particular scrutiny regarding the safety of drugs approved for human use. Recent high-profile drug safety fail |
The Availability of HPV Chemical Data
In early October 1998, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the High Production Volume (HPV) Chemical Challenge program, calling for toxicity testing on 2,800 chemicals imported or manufactured in amounts over one million pounds per year. This program was apparently devised in closed-door meetings betwee |
Testing of Industrial Chemicals: Strategies that Save Animals
Starting with the testimony of Neal Barnard, M.D., to Congress in 1999, PCRM has worked to prevent the deaths of animals in large testing programs such as the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) High Production Volume Chemical Challenge Program (HPV Program), which gathered data on industrial chemicals pr |
More Than a Makeup Trend: New Survey Shows 72 percent of Americans Oppose Testing Cosmetics Products on Animals
A Report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Autumn 2011 Makeup trends change from season to season, but a much quieter, steadier cosmetics trend is also taking place. As consumers have become more concerned about animal welfare issues, demand for cruelty-free cosmetics and personal care products h |
More Than a Makeup Trend
A Report from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Autumn 2011 Makeup trends change from season to season, but a much quieter, steadier cosmetics trend is also taking place. As consumers have become more concerned about animal welfare issues, demand for cruelty-free cosmetics and personal care product |
Citizens Concerned About Chemical Testing
Concerned Citizens We asked people to share why they think Congress should reform toxicity testing and include specific animal protection measures in the revisions to the Toxic Substances Control Act, the law that regulates industrial chemicals. People all over the country agree that animal testing does not belo |
Chemical Testing Basics TSCA Reform
Chemical Testing Basics Toxicity Testing | Toxic Substance Control Act Reform About the Toxic Substances Control Act The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was signed into law in 1976 and has been the prevailing legislation governing industrial che |
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