Friday, 16 April 2021, 9:17 am
The Ministry for Primary Industries has
released a report
on the use of animals in science in 2019. Critics have
labelled the results ‘disappointing’ and cite the report
as evidence that the current system needs to be thrown
out.
Tara Jackson, Executive Director of the New
Zealand Anti-Vivisection Society, said the lack of progress
has been disappointing.
“Over the last several
decades, there have been no significant changes in these
numbers. Animals are still suffering in laboratories despite
constant improvements in technology. We don’t need to be
stuck using outdated animal models,” Jackson
said.
The report shows small fluctuations in the
More than 67,000 animals bred for testing at Otago University - but simply killed
15 Apr, 2021 06:23 PM
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Mice bred for research, testing and teaching. Photo / Techniplast, File
Otago Daily Times
By: Bruce Munro
In 2019, the University of Otago bred more than 67,000 animals that it then killed without using for any scientific purpose.
That year, the university was responsible for half of all the animals killed in New Zealand that had been bred but not used for research, testing and teaching (RTT) purposes.
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University research and enterprise deputy vice-chancellor Richard Blaikie has defended the institution s record and has said it was working to reduce the number.
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WASHINGTON This week, thirteen national advocacy groups concerned about public health, environment, and animal welfare urged key federal agencies to maintain regulatory authority over genetically engineered food animals within the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In response to a Trump U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposal to withdraw most of the FDA’s regulatory authority over genetically engineered animals, including fish, and transfer that authority to USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the groups sent letters to U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) Secretary Becerra and USDA Secretary Vilsack urging them to maintain authority of genetically engineered animals within FDA.
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According to a press release published by the Center for Food Safety on Wednesday
, 13 public health, environment, and animal welfare advocacy groups sent letters to officials imploring them not to switch regulatory authority over genetically engineered (GE) animals to a department within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The letters seek to undo the eleventh-hour Trump Administration proposal, allegedly one of several aimed to “weaken [the] FDA’s authority to protect public health.”
The letters, sent to Secretary Xavier Becerra of the Department of U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) and Secretary Tom Vilsack of the USDA, explain the dangers posed by the deregulation of GE animals, like undetected off-target mutations that threaten animal and human health as well as the environment. Though the agency has yet to “develop final regulations on genetically engineered animals, [the] FDA posse