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US FDA to phase out animal testing in drug development (www.reuters.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/vegan@lemmy.ml

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This also coincides with the reintroduction of the FDA modernization act 3.0 into the house today. That bill would require the FDA to start work toward phasing out animal testing expanding on the passed FDA modernization act 2.0 act which only allowed them to do so, but did not require it

Unsure why the article talks exclusively about AI rather than other, much more rigorous, non-animal models like organs on a chip

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[–] Mohaim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

US... does... good?... thing?? Which universe is this?

Edit: On a closer reading, it looks like it might actually mean "if you use AI/other non-animal methods we'll let you skip some safety testing" ("""streamlined review"""). Less animal murder so still good ofc, but :/

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Strange indeed, but this has been part of a long push. Didn't happen by magic

Edit: On a closer reading, it looks like it might actually mean “if you use AI/other non-animal methods we’ll let you skip some safety testing” (“”“streamlined review”“”). Less animal murder so still good ofc, but :/

Their 11 page roadmap document does not read that way at all. Looking the FDA press documents look very different than the implementation details documents. I mean part of their roadmap is actually to encourage people - if already doing animal studies - to perform additional non-animal studies at the same time and submit that along side to get better data about accuracy and such

https://www.fda.gov/media/186092/download?attachment

[–] Mohaim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh ok! Thanks for the clarification. It's the first I've heard of this. It's great to see good change

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Good, such a stupid practice considering what we know today. I hope they go on to completely ban it.