Issues Related to Animals in Toxicology Research
NAS Report Offers New Tools to Assess Health Risks from Chemicals
The report from the NAS entitled “Applications of Toxicogenomic Technologies to Predictive Toxicology and Risk Assessment” concludes that the technological hurdles that could have limited the reproducibility of data from toxicogenomic technologies have been resolved and recommends ways for the field to move forward. Toxicogenomic technologies provide tools to better understand the mechanisms through which environmental agents initiate and advance disease processes. They can also provide important information to help identify individuals that are more susceptible to disease risks posed by certain environmental agents than the general population. The report was commissioned by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy
The report “Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century: A Vision and a Strategy” from the National Research Council outlines a new approach that would rely less heavily on animal studies and instead focus on in vitro methods that evaluate chemicals’ effects on biological processes using cells, cell lines, or cellular components, preferably of human origin.
Public Health Services (PHS) Policy on Humane Care and Use of Laboratory Animals FAQs
What are the institution’s repsponsibilities in preparing for targeting by animal rights activists?—Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW) guidance concerning targeting of institutions by animal activists provides provides guidance on the roles of the Institutional Official and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) in developing plans to diminish the likelihood that their institution or its employees will become targets of animal activists. |
