End EPA Animal Testing Requirements

FROM The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)

Tell Lisa Jackson, Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that it's time to replace animals in pesticide and endocrine testing. Urge the EPA to include the minimization of animal testing among EPA's core principles for the regulation of industrial chemicals under any version of chemical regulation reform, including the Toxic Substances Control Act.

CONTACT

Sign an online petition

And/Or make direct contact:

Lisa Jackson
US EPA Headquarters
Ariel Rios Building
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Mail Code: 1101A
Washington, DC 20460
phone (202) 564-4700
email

INFORMATION / TALKING POINTS

The Environmental Protection Agency is spearheading a new approach to evaluating chemicals that could end the use of animals and we applaud them. Yet EPA still requires vast amounts of animal testing for pesticides, water pollutants, and other substances.

Common types of EPA-required tests include widely condemned “lethal dose” methods, and other force-feeding or inhalation tests developed decades ago. So while science has progressed in every other discipline, animals are still being poisoned to assess the risks of chemicals.

Thank you for everything you do for animals!