DECRYPTION – The United States now allows the marketing of products without resorting to animal testing.
Defenders of the animal cause have been calling for it for a long time: in the United States, drugs can now be marketed without having been tested on laboratory animals. A law signed on December 29 by the American president removes the obligation to test the efficacy and safety of a molecule on animals before launching clinical trials in humans. This rule had been in effect since 1938.
“It is not a question of prohibiting the use of animal experimentationsays Ivan Balansard, president of the Gircor association, whose vocation is to communicate on the subject to the general public, on behalf of various French research institutes. On the other hand, this phase can now be avoided if the pharmaceutical laboratory manages to demonstrate that the level of safety of the drug evaluated by alternative methods is comparable to what it would have obtained with animal tests. The United States Drug Administration (FDA) will give its…
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