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Sweeping Global Changes Spell an End for Animal Tests

In February, 2008, three U.S. government agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Toxicology Program (NTP), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), signed a five-year agreement to create innovative and animal-free methods to evaluate the safety of drugs and chemicals with the goal of phasing out animal tests entirely.

In July, 2007, the prestigious National Research Council (NRC) issued a report," Toxicology for the 21st Century,” which outlines a new approach that would rely less on animal studies and focus instead upon in vitro methods. According to the report, “Over time, the need for traditional animal testing could be greatly reduced, and possibly even eliminated someday.”

In Europe, the ban on animal testing for the manufacture of cosmetics will take effect in 2009. The ban has greatly influenced the growth of non-animal testing technology by global manufacturing companies that will need to comply once it is law.

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