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The Food and Drug Administration needs to hear from you!
 Every day, thousands of animals are experimented on or killed to create and test drugs that will never help a sick human being. In some cases, animal tests suggest that a new drug is dangerous when in fact it would be quite safe for humans; yet the drug is abandoned. In other cases, drugs appear safe in animal tests when in fact they are dangerous to humans. In both cases, a drug’s effect in animals makes for a very inexact predictor of its effect on people.
The push for non-animal testing methods comes from scientists concerned about both the humane aspects of animal testing and the need for better testing methods. Unfortunately, the fact that new and accurate non-animal test methods have been developed does not mean they will be used. The pharmaceutical industry is often shy about using methods that break from tradition.
In a petition filed November 14 with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, PCRM and an international coalition of scientists, doctors, and animal-protection organizations asked the agency to mandate the use of validated non-animal testing methods, when those alternatives exist, to create safer drugs for American consumers.
Now the FDA needs to hear from you. More than
52,000
PCRM members have already signed petitions that are being sent to the FDA. Please write to the FDA commissioner and politely urge the organization to mandate the use of validated alternatives to animal tests:
Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D., Commissioner
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
For more information, please read this Good Medicine article about PCRM’s efforts to urge the FDA to transition to non-animal tests.
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