Posted on 10/01/2022 1:08:38 PM PDT by RandFan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) and Senator Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) bipartisan FDA Modernization Act 2.0 to end animal testing mandates.
This legislation ends an outdated FDA mandate that experimental drugs must be tested on animals before they are used on humans in clinical trials. The bill doesn’t ban animal testing outright but would allow the option for drug sponsors to use alternative methods where they are suitable.
The legislation is cosponsored by Senators Mike Braun (R-IN), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Susan Collins (R-ME), Angus King (D-ME), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Rick Scott (R-FL). The bill will now head to the U.S. House of Representatives.
“The FDA Modernization Act 2.0 will accelerate innovation and get safer, more effective drugs to market more quickly by cutting red tape that is not supported by current science, and I’m proud to have led the charge. The passage of this bipartisan bill is a step toward ending the needless suffering and death of animal test subjects – which I’m glad both Republicans and Democrats can agree needs to end,” said Dr. Paul.
“Lawmakers from both parties recognize that the United States must lift an archaic animal-testing mandate for drug development and replace that strategy with 21st-century methods grounded on human biology,”said Wayne Pacelle, president of Animal Wellness Action and the Center for a Humane Economy.“This is the biggest policy development in Congressional history on the fight to replace animal testing with morally and scientifically superior methods.”
Oh so glad they have the priorities straight.
I hope human animals are included in “animals”.
Now that pharma can test on the public, who needs to torture dogs and monkeys anymore?
As for innocent babies in the womb......not so much...
A loophole to get J6ers out?
Kill babies but don’t hurt the animals. Perfectly logical.
Since many drugs affect animals and humans differently this is a good bill.
Dr Fakey tortured enough beagles.
“I hope human animals are included in “animals”.”
Ask Pfizer.
Pfizer’s COVID-19 Clinical Trial Phase 1/2/3 in clinicaltrials.gov https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT04368728
Estimated Study Completion Date: February 15, 2023
Moderna’s COVID-19 Clinical Trial Phase 3 in clinicaltrials.gov https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/study/NCT04470427
Estimated Study Completion Date: December 29, 2022
Welcome to the second annual mRNA games and may the odds be ever in your favor.
If you ever had to submit a NDA or 510(k) you will quickly learn there are hundreds of thousand if not millions of dollars in unnecessary testing.
Our company had to do an entire battery of tests, millions of dollars, for a material which has been in medical use since World War II. The problem is the shape of our device has a different shape than that of predicate devices.
That one little issue stroked the FDA’s fur backward and all kinds of additional tests are needed.
They even come back asking for tests that in no way bear any relevance to the product. Their questions tell me they have no idea what polymer we are working with, where it came from or how it goes away (and it also tells me they didn’t read what we had written in our filing).
My guess is number of unnecessary tests are there as a barrier to entry into the market, that is, protects the large and well-connected companies.
My guess is number of unnecessary tests are there as a barrier to entry into the market, that is, protects the large and well-connected companies.Economists call it "rent seeking" and "regulatory capture." That works but misses the entire point: the government willfully joins the "capture", which is where the corruption lies. Just ask Fauci about his "awards" and "royalties."
Greaaaat. Let’s use chopped up human baby dna.
Great news. I hope it gets signed into law ASAP.
Good job, Rand
GTH, Rats
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