Animal rights nonprofit group PETA is praising the Trump administration for its work to end animal testing within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), thanking them for “helping spare tens of thousands of animals each year.”
The FDA announced Thursday it is phasing out its animal testing requirement for antibody therapies and other drugs in favor of “more effective, human-relevant methods.”
“The FDA’s animal testing requirement will be reduced, refined, or potentially replaced using a range of approaches, including AI-based computational models of toxicity and cell lines and organoid toxicity testing in a laboratory setting (so-called New Approach Methodologies or NAMs data),” the administration stated.
FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary said drug manufacturers have performed “additional animal testing
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