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'A new U.S. law has eliminated the requirement that drugs in development must
undergo testing in animals before being given to participants in human trials.
Animal rights advocates have long pushed for such a move, and some in the
pharmaceutical industry have argued that animal testing can be ineffective and
expensive.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-KY, who sponsored the FDA Modernization Act 2.0, said in a
statement that the new law will help end the "needless suffering and death of
animal test subjects" and will "get safer, more effective drugs to market more
quickly by cutting red tape that is not supported by current science."
PETA cheered the new law as a "radical shift" in how new drugs and treatments
will be created.
Signed by President Biden in December as part of a larger spending package, the
law doesn't ban the testing of new drugs on animals outright.
Instead it simply lifts the requirement that pharmaceutical companies use
animals to test new drugs before human trials. Companies can still test drugs
on animals if they choose to.
There are a slew of other methods that drugmakers employ to assess new
medications and treatments, such as computer modeling and "organs on a chip,"
thumb-sized microchips that can mimic how organs' function are affected by
pharmaceuticals.'
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Future Crunch:
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