“In the US, a major roadblock to medical innovation is FDA red tape that forces pharmaceutical companies to waste years of time and millions of dollars on painful, misleading and outdated drug tests,” says Justin Goodman, vice president of advocacy and public policy at tax payer watchdog group, White Coat Waste Project, “and doesn’t allow them to use more modern and efficient research tools.”
Goodman adds, “these burdensome government-mandated tests on dogs and other animals fail to predict human drug outcomes 95 percent of the time, causing promising drugs to be abandoned, and dangerous ones to reach patients.”
The two leaders in developing vaccines for Covid-19, Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna, adopted an entirely new approach:
- > not testing on animals first, but rather running human and animal trials concurrently.
“So we can stop doing things the traditional way and we did it when we were FORCED into it.” < (door de pandemie)
“The COVID-19 crisis has certainly exposed cracks in the foundation of the current regulatory regime, particularly how mandating slow, expensive and inaccurate animal tests before new drugs can even enter human trials is wasteful and counterproductive,” adds Goodman.
“Moderna and Pfizer both quickly got safe and 95% effective coronavirus vaccines into human trials without first completing tests on dogs, monkeys or other animals.”
https://www.planetfriendlynews.com/.../animal-testing...
Macaques at a breeding facility await being shipped to research laboratories
Gunstig nieuws in deze moeilijke tijd! Zo heeft Covid 19 ook een goede kant. Wat zien die aapjes op de foto er overigens zielig uit, zoals ze uit angst bij elkaar zijn gekropen. Je hart breekt ervan.
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