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Dear Friends, I am sending this out to the 25 of you because it's important information that needs to be circulated and posted around the various animal welfare sites here at care2 and beyond. I just received this information from Kinship Circle and you'll find it's quite comprehensive. You have complete permission to copy and cross-post- the important thing is to get the info out. I'll be posting some of it on Voice for Change CAUSE as it pertains to a wide range of issues.
I believe there's useful information for here for most anyone with concerns for animal welfare regardless of where you live.
Best to you all.
With love,
Katia Louise
KINSHIP CIRCLE PRIMARY - PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST AS WRITTEN
When you speak for animals, speak intelligently. You are all they have!
http://www.kinshipcircle.org/fact_sheets/
DOWNLOAD THIS FACT SHEET:
http://www.kinshipcircle.org/fact_sheets/VivisectiLessonFutilityPH.pdf
DOWNLOAD THIS FACT SHEET:
http://www.kinshipcircle.org/fact_sheets/MODSacrificOneWontSaveOther.pdf
4/15/08: Red Tape Keeps Animals In U.S. Labs
ICCVAM's Legacy Of Inertia
EMAIL kinshipcircle@accessus.net FOR WORD DOC OF A FORMATTED LETTER.
Easily modify letter and copy/paste it into an email or print out to fax or mail.
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FULL CONTACT INFORMATION. Sample letter follows.
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Dr. William Stokes, ICCVAM Executive Director & NICEATM Director
Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods
NIEHS, EC-17, P.O. Box 12233
Research Triangle Park, NC, 27709
ph: 919-541-7997; email: stokes@niehs.nih.gov, iccvam@niehs.nih.gov
Marilyn L. Wind, Ph.D., Chair, ICCVAM
Deputy Associate Executive Director
Directorate for Health Sciences
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
4330 East West Highway, Rm. 600
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
ph: 301-504-7246; email: mwind@cpsc.gov
The Honorable Representative [YOUR REP'S NAME]
U.S. House of Representatives; Washington, D.C. 20510
The Honorable Senators [YOUR 2 SENATORS' NAMES]
The U.S. Senate, U.S. Capitol Building; Washington, D.C. 20510
To identify your federal legislators and find contact info, try:
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EMAIL BLOCK: All emails found for this alert.
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FULL CONTACT INFO FOR ALL ICCVAM REPRESENTATIVES LISTED BELOW IS HERE:
http://iccvam.niehs.nih.gov/about/agencies/ni_Reps.htm
stokes@niehs.nih.gov, iccvam@niehs.nih.gov, mwind@cpsc.gov,
mohammed.mumtaz@cdc.hhs.gov, khatlelid@cpsc.gov, jmatheson@cpsc.gov,
Robert.Foster@OSD.Mil, Patty.decot@OSD.Mil,
Peter.Schultheiss@det.amedd.army.mil, harry.salem@us.army.mil,
michael.kuperberg@science.doe.gov, marvin.stodolsky@science.doe.gov,
barnett_rattner@usgs.gov, Sarah_Gerould@usgs.gov, george.cushmac@dot.gov,
steve.hwang@rspa.dot.gov, hamernik.karen@epa.gov, rispin.amy@epa.gov,
preston.julian@epa.gov, mccall.deborah@epa.gov, mcmaster.suzanne@epa.gov,
smrchek.jerry@epa.gov, suzanne.fitzpatrick@fda.hhs.gov,
lawrence.dhoostelaere@fda.hhs.gov, william.allaben@fda.hhs.gov,
david.hattan@fda.hhs.gov, paul.howard@fda.hhs.gov
robert.bronaugh@fda.hhs.gov, richard.mcfarland@fda.hhs.gov,
devaraya.jagannath@fda.hhs.gov, ying.huang@fda.hhs.gov,
cecilia.aguila@fda.hhs.gov, abigail.jacobs@fda.hhs.gov,
melvin.stratmeyer@fda.hhs.gov, paul.brown@fda.hhs.gov, polanda@mail.nih.gov,
kevin.howcroft@nih.hhs.gov, tice@niehs.nih.gov, chhabrar@niehs.nih.gov,
heindelj@niehs.nih.gov, snyderm@od.nih.gov, paul.nicolaysen@cdc.hhs.gov,
kmurali.rao@cdc.hhs.gov, goshorj@nlm.nih.gov, ahir.surender@dol.gov,
jodie.a.kulpa-eddy@aphis.usda.gov, betty.j.goldentyer@usda.gov
*Kinship Circle cannot guarantee validity of email addresses. During
campaigns, recipients may change or disable their email addresses. Emails
from government, corporate, or institute websites may be incorrect.
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SAMPLE LETTER -- This letter is prepared to inform you about the issue.
Try to shorten and personalize your letter before sending.
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Dear Representative, Senators, and ICCVAM Committee:
The Lethal Dose 50 Percent (LD-50) test measures the dose of a substance
needed to kill half a group of laboratory animals. For up to two years,
animals ingest chemicals via stomach tube, inhalation, spray and injection.
They vomit, convulse, become paralyzed and bleed from eyes, nose and mouth.
LD-50 tests are not as accurate as combined human cell tests. Still,
pharmaceutical, chemical and consumer firms are required to poison animals.
Companies that conduct animal-free experiments in-house must ultimately kill
animals to meet regulatory qualifications.
I respectfully ask government regulators to accelerate validation of
non-animal research tools. I also ask my elected officials to advocate
legislation mandating the use of animal-free tests.
Since the ICCVAM Authorization Act established the Interagency Coordinating
Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods as a permanent committee
in 2000 -- ICCVAM's panel has approved just four non-animal tests (among 185
reviews). Comparatively, the European Center for the Evaluation of
Alternative Methods (ECVAM) has 34 human-focused methods in place, with 170
more under active evaluation. In 1986 the European Commission stipulated use
of animal-free tests whenever feasible and later began a phase-out of animal
experiments for cosmetics.
U.S. lawmakers must allocate funds to ICCVAM so informed scientists can
develop non-animal models as their European counterpart does. ICCVAM's
current committee clings to customary, but old-fashioned animal experiments
that haven't undergone thorough scientific analysis.
Toxicity testing in animals is "expensive, time-consuming, uses animals in
large numbers...and it doesn't always work," says Francis Collins, director
of NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute. A National Academy of
Sciences report, "Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century," calls for
non-animal methodology. According to the National Research Council, in vitro
strategy "would generate more-relevant data to evaluate risks people face."
It is indisputably cruel to pour toxins into the clipped-open eyes of
rabbits (Draize eye irritancy) or smear corrosives over an animal's shaved
skin (skin absorption tests). Human safety data should not come from
poisoning animals (LD-50) or overdosing them with drugs while locked in
metal restraints (pyrogenicity tests).
Please capitalize on strides in biology and computer automation that let
researchers gauge toxicity more reliably. I urge ICCVAM to do its job. I
urge Congress to enact funding so ICCVAM can do its job.
Thank you,
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SOURCE OF INFORMATION / REFERENCE LINKS
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In U.S., Few Alternatives To Testing On Animals
Panel Has Produced 4 Options in 10 Years
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103733.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=new
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