Victories for Animals

The Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act is reintroduced in the 112th Congress and continues to gain cosponsors
186 chimpanzees at the Alamogordo Primate Facility, scheduled to be transferred into invasive research, were granted a reprieve
FDA responds to MAP with commitment to new policy language to support use of non-animal alternatives
North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance founded to establish standards of excellence for chimpanzee sanctuaries

NASA cancelled plans for space radiation experiments on monkeys
16 more chimpanzees were retired from research and brought to sanctuary at Chimp Haven
The Ontario Veterinary College ended all terminal surgery labs on animals
The College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University ended the use of dogs in surgery training
Scientists at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University created a “lung-on-a-chip”—a non-animal alternative for testing environmental toxins and drugs
Utah and Washington, D.C. ended mandatory pound seizure, ending the requirement that state pounds relinquish dogs and cats to research institutions—Utah: March 2010, DC: August 2008
More moon bears were rescued from bile farms and brought to sanctuary at Animals Asia: 10 were rescued in 2010; 13 in February 2009; 28 in March 2008 (only 12 survived)
The Medical College of Wisconsin ended the use of pigs in its first-year physiology course

The University of California Irvine replaced the use of rats and frogs with computer simulators in their neuroscience course

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration established a committee to develop guidelines for industry’s use of alternatives to animal testing in meeting FDA requirements

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