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Articles and Reports The Animal Experimentation Scandal (2005 Updated Report): National Trends In general the trend appears to be towards an increase in animal
experimentation. The total of all of funded projects involving the
listed 27 species of animals for fiscal 2003 is 30,426. The total for
1994 (a ten year comparison) was 21,439. This is an increase of 42% or
8987 grants. Grants funded using thirteen of the twenty-seven measured
species increased, with the most significant increases involving
virtually all species of primates – an overall increase for this
category of 322 grants or 32%, rats & mice – a combined increase of 81%
or 10,590 grants. The remaining 14 species had decreases with the most
significant involving rabbits (1422 grants or 43%), hamsters (292 grants
or 54%), guinea pigs (37% or 195 grants) and cats (41% or 251 grants).
Using this data it is possible to develop a very general
approximation of how much these government agencies spend on animal
experiments per year. The NIH publishes average dollar amounts per
grant. For the year 2003, the average grant was $400,631. This approach
generates an estimated 2003 animal experimentation funding total of
$12,189,598,806 or approximately $12.2 billion. This should be compared
with a 1994 funding level of $4,766,854,455. In a ten year span the
increase in animal research funding was $7,422,744,351 or 156%. Appendix
A contains the national statistics broken down by species for both 2003
and 1994. Every day the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA), Health Resources and Services
Administration (HRSA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), Agency for Health Care Research
and Quality (AHRQ), and Office of Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH)
spends over $33,396,161 on animal experiments. Statistical Highlights
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