Under the proposed amendments to the Food and Drugs Act included in the 2023 budget, the Canadian government wants to prohibit the testing of cosmetics on animals.
Animal dissection has been a traditional teaching tool in biology for centuries. However, harmful animal use in education has raised ethical and environmental concerns in the last decades and led to an ongoing debate about the role and importance of animal dissection in teaching across all education levels. To understand the current status of dissection in secondary education and the attitudes towards humane teaching alternatives among the educators, I conducted a survey – for the first time – among high school biology teachers in Switzerland. The specific aims of this study were i) to explore the extent of animal or animal parts dissection in high school biology classes, ii) to understand the attitudes and experiences of high school biology teachers towards dissection and animal-free alternatives, and iii) to gain some insight into the circumstances hindering a wider uptake of alternatives to animal dissection in high school education. In total, 76 teachers participated in the onl
The wait is finally over. On April 14, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published its guidance for industry #256 (GFI 256), describing FDA’s position on the legality of.
TUCSON, Ariz. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine a national nonprofit with more than 17,000 doctor members and local residents held a demonstration at the University of Arizona (UA) this Thursday, calling for an end to the use of live animals in the university’s surgery residency.
/PRNewswire/ We are excited to announce that our new toxicology facility in Suzhou, China has achieved a key milestone when Jiangsu s Provincial Department.