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HRD-80-69 1 (1980-03-28)

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United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548


Human Resources
Division


B-198011


v/he Honorable Norman F. Lent
House of Representatives

Dear Mr. Lent:


MARCH 28, 1980



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     Subject: Pfroposed Legislation for Federal Funding to
               Develop Non-animal Alternatives for Research7
               (HRD-80-69)

     Your June 15, 1979, letter requested our comments on the
feasibility and advisability of a-legislative proposal to re-
direct 50 percent of Federal research funding for developing
non-animal alternatives to research. In discussing this
request with your office, we pointed out that we had received
a related request from Congressman Charles Pashayan, Jr., to
review several issues regarding non-animal alternatives.

     As your office agreed, this letter presents our views
on the legislative proposal and the information we obtained
in responding to Congressman Pashayan. We discussed the use
of alternatives with the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
officials and representatives of various private organizations
concerned with biomedical research and animal welfare. We
also reviewed literature related to this subject, recommended
to us by several persons we interviewed.

BACKGROUND

     The term alternatives, when applied to the use of
animals in biomedical research, is generally recognized as
covering one or more of the following possibilities:

     --Not using any laboratory animals.

     --Reducing the number of animals required.

     --Refining existing methods to minimize the amount of
       animal suffering and stress.


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