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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 557
112TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 112-242
GREAT APE PROTECTION AND COST SAVINGS ACT
OF 2011
NOVEMBER 30, 2012.-Ordered to be printed
Mrs. BOXER, from the Committee on Environment and Public
Works, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 810]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Environment and Public Works, to which was
referred a bill (S. 810) to prohibit the conducting of invasive re-
search on great apes, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
GENERAL STATEMENT AND BACKGROUND
While chimpanzee research has helped in the past to address cer-
tain diseases, current research is rapidly moving away from the
use of Chimpanzees. At Congress' request, the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) commissioned the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to
assess the current and anticipated need for chimpanzee biomedical
research. After nine months of evaluation, discussion and review,
which included hearing from the nation's leading experts in chim-
panzee research and many science and animal advocacy groups, the
IOM issued its report in December 2011, concluding-
While the chimpanzee has been a valuable animal
model in past research, most current use of chimpanzees
for biomedical research is unnecessary, based on the cri-
teria established by the committee, except potentially for
two current research uses.
The present trajectory indicates a decreasing scientific
need for chimpanzee studies due to the emergence of non-
chimpanzee models and technologies.
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