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For more than a half-century, The Humane Society of the United States has worked to reduce suffering and to create meaningful change for animals in laboratories through public education, scientific outreach, legislative advocacy, and strategic partnerships.
This approach has made us one of the most effective and respected animal protection voices in the world.
Our scientists and policy leaders are regularly invited to serve on expert panels and advisory bodies to governments and major corporations, and to provide testimony before legislatures at national and international levels. Our constructive and credible approach to the animal testing controversy has contributed to many significant advances, including the following recent examples:
- Pressure from HSLF/HSUS secures an additional $2 million in federal funding for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's computational toxicity research program, which is working to develop high-tech, 21st century alternatives to animal testing (February 2009)
- HSLF/HSUS lobbying convinces New York to become the third state to require use of validated animal-free methods for product safety testing (July 2008)
- Passage of legislation by the U.S. Congress to increase federal fines for animal experimenters and research facilities found in violation of the Animal Welfare Act (June 2008)
- A hard-hitting European Parliament resolution on alternatives to animal testing and faster, more transparent procedures for regulatory acceptance by the European Commission (May 2008)
- The creation of an International Cooperation on Alternative Testing Methods, with representation from the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan, owing in part to pressure from The HSUS for greater international recognition of validated alternative test methods (March 2008)
- Historic U.S. interagency cooperation in developing rapid, non-animal toxicity testing methods, which seeks to implement the National Research Council vision of "21st century toxicology," to which The HSUS was a major contributor (February 2008)
- Enactment of the second U.S. state law mandating use of federally recognized alternatives to animal testing in response to lobbying by The HSUS (December 2007)
- Launch of the joint HSUS-Proctor & Gamble website, AltTox.org, to provide an online discussion forum for professionals working to advance the use of non-animal methods in toxicity testing to exchange information and views (December 2007)
- A decision by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to end its longstanding requirement of chronic pesticide poisoning studies in dogs in response to pressure from a coalition of animal protection organizations, including The HSUS (October 2007)
- Co-organizing the Sixth World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Tokyo, which appears to be leading to historic measures in Japan for the protection of animals used in testing and research (August 2007)
- A landmark call by the United States' leading science advisory body, the National Research Council, for a fundamental shift to non-animal methods in toxicology (June 2007)
- A request from the U.S. Senate for a strategic plan with clear deliverables from ICCVAM—the U.S. federal body charged with reviewing alternative testing methods. (June 2007)
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