Despite Modernization Act FDA Still Requiring Animal Testing

Every year in the United States around 25 million animals suffer and die in horrific and unnecessary laboratory experiments. The vast majority of these innocent dogs, primates, rabbits, mice and other animals live their entire lives locked inside barren cages waiting in fear to be taken out and subjected to unthinkable tortures before they are eventually killed in the name of research.

In December of 2022 a monumentally important bipartisan bill that should save millions of animals from the tragic fate of lab testing, the FDA Modernization Act 2.0, was passed by congress as part of the 2023 federal omnibus appropriations bill and signed into law by President Biden.

The FDA Modernization Act 2.0 ended a federal mandate that experimental drugs must be tested on animals before they are used on humans in clinical trials, which has been in effect since 1938. The new law was designed to allow scientists to use safer, more reliable alternatives such as “tests conducted in vitro, in silico, or in chemico.” However, one year later the FDA has failed to update their regulations and scientists who are currently submitting “Investigational New Drug (IND)” applications must still deal with FDA regulations that require animal trials.

The FDA Modernization Act 2.0 made animal trials optional but by failing to update their forms the FDA has essentially forced scientists to continue testing on animals. This is unacceptable! The millions of animals languishing in testing labs deserve action now.

A group of bipartisan senators led by Rand Paul (R-KY) and Cory Booker (D-NJ), the original co-sponsors of the FDA Modernization Act 2.0, recently wrote a letter to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf urging the FDA to update their IND applications as soon as possible to comply with the current laws which no longer require animal testing. We need to help put the pressure on to make sure he knows that further delay is not an option!

Please join Species Unite in demanding that FDA Commissioner Robert Califf stop forcing scientists to perform cruel and unnecessary experiments on animals and update the FDA’s new drug applications NOW!

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