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Articles and Reports The Animal Experimentation Scandal (2005 Updated Report): Recommendations 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) should be required to
compile annual reports detailing: the amount of funding directed at
animal experimentation, the amount of funding directed at alternatives
development, the number of animal used in experimentation, etc. Congress should commission a General Accounting Office audit of the
grant system within these same agencies, also correlating research
contracts data, to examine the issue of duplication within the system
and to develop specific parameters to prevent excessive duplication and
redundancy within the grant system. This information should also be
correlated with information relevant to funding of research projects in
other agencies including the Department of Defense, United States
Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy, etc. The grant approval system, on the agency level, as well as the
facility level, must be overhauled to put more community representation
on Institutional Animal Care & Use Committees (IACUC) for all facilities
that receive federal funding, and all IACUC meetings must be open to the
public, and regularly announced. All branches of the federal government that perform animal-based
experimentation should be required to maintain an internet accessible
database of all funded projects to prevent inter-agency project
duplication.
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