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Dear John,

It’s the most significant development in the history of the modern effort to move away from animal testing. I speak of Congress’s enactment of the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 less than a month ago.

With its partner organization, Animal Wellness Action formulated the effort to eliminate a Depression-era mandate for animal testing for all new drug development and worked with urgency, and with you, to get it over the finish line.

We all accomplished something momentous. For animals and for the health of millions of people struggling with illness.

But our celebration was intentionally brief. Animals are still at risk, and we know we must turn immediately to the next phase of our campaign: acceptance of non-animal testing methods in thousands of laboratories and the end of the era of sacrificing animals in drug development.

No longer do we want to see tens of thousands of beagles, tens of thousands of non-human primates (including endangered animals smuggled from far-off places), and millions of other animals tormented in tests that are crude and unreliable.

The data show animal tests only rarely forecast the human reaction to new drugs. Drugs that pass muster in animal tests fail in human clinical trials 90 percent of the time.

This week we are calling on the Food and Drug Administration — which oversees drug development approval — to set a “moonshot” goal of ending animal testing for drug development by 2030. [[link removed]]
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Merely allowing drug-developers to use non-animal methods is not enough. We must ensure they have the tools to do so, and ensure the regulators are invested in making that happen.

The FDA, pharmaceutical companies, and academic research institutions all need to reboot and step with confidence into the world of 21st-century science.

Congress gave near-unanimous support for the FDA Modernization Act because it recognized that our existing drug development paradigm is broken.

We are still without cures for so many diseases. Adverse reactions to drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. And millions of animals lead lives of desperation and fear in laboratories.

It’s hard to imagine a more flawed drug approval process than the current one.

Asking a major federal agency to set a timeline to phase out animal testing is not without precedent. In 2019, EPA’s Administrator signed a directive [[link removed]] to phase out animal-testing protocols conducted or overseen by the agency to assess the safety of chemicals and pesticides by 2035. We are almost there on cosmetic testing, with hundreds of companies now marketing their products with a “cruelty free” promise.

Now drugs need their own “cruelty free” designation.

To help us achieve this transition, we need your help. We need Congressional oversight to prompt FDA to act in a timely way on sanctioning alternative methods. We also must work with the pharmaceutical companies and track their progress in moving away from animal tests. And we need to conduct similar campaigns in other industrialized nations to see that they follow the legal framework set forth in FDA Modernization 2.0.

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We’ve completed the first essential leg of our campaign to wind down animal testing in drug development. Now we need to run the second leg with intensity and see the law put into practice. So many lives hang in the balance.

Wayne Pacelle
President
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