Regulations
Animal testing is regulated by what act
Animal Welfare Act (AWA)
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) reported that in 2010, 1,134,693 animals were used for testing. It didn't include what animals?
rats, mice, farm animals or cold-blooded animals
As more people ______, the anti-vivisection movement grew
adopted pets
What are the "Three R's"?
Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement
What is the assumption that humans are superior to other species?
speciesism
The USDA breaks down its data into how many categories of pain type?
Three
A total of ___percent said animal testing was morally wrong.
39
The NIH announced that its remaining___research chimpanzees would be retired to the Federal Chimpanzee Sanctuary System.
50
In 2013, it announced that it would retire most of its chimpanzees, ___ in total
In 2013, the European Union banned the import and sale of cosmetic products tested on what?
Animals
What does the U.S. Food and Drug Administration require before a new medication can be tested on people?
It must be tested on at least two species.
What was the name of the dog that was kidnapped and sold into experimentation?
Pepper
the United States, an estimated______animals are used every year in scientific research
26 million
Queen Victoria was an early what of animal testing?
opponent
What did a 2007 report by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Science recommend regarding animal testing?
A reduction in the use of animal testing and increased testing on cells.
What regulates the development of new medications?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Why did the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences say that testing on animals would have to continue for the time being?
because cells cannot yet stand in for an entire organism.
A May 2013 Gallup poll found that____percent of Americans said medical testing on animals was morally acceptable
56
The laboratory's director, Edward Taub, was charged with more than a dozen what?
animal cruelty offences
Who were kept in such horrendous conditions that they started doing what?
tearing at their own flesh
About how many animals were tested on in 2010
In 1875, a group founded the Society for the what?
Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection.
A 2007 report by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences called for a reduction in the use of animal testing. It recommended to test on what?
cells
In 1981, a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activist worked undercover at the Institute for Biological Research in Silver Spring, Maryland. He took photographs of____in the facility,
monkeys
what does N.I.H stand for
National Institutes of Health