PCRM 2013 Progress Report

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2013 Progress Report

The Physicians Committee combines science and advocacy to help animals and

promote human health in the strongest possible way. Weve virtually eliminated animal

use in medical training. We have made historic progress to end the use of chimpanzees

in experiments. We have brought unprecedented awareness of animals to toxicology

testing. We have built scientific credibility for plant-based diets, helping them gain

acceptance by the U.S. government and by major health and research organizations.

We are now turning our attention to specific research targets: experiments in alcohol,

diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimers disease, and antibody production. We also have

a strategic quick-response team that tackles emerging issues like rabies experiments

on puppies in Taiwan. We are conducting cutting-edge clinical research. And as the

worlds appetite for animal products shifts, our online programs are reaching China,

India, Japan, and Spanish-speaking countries.

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine


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Contents

!"#$#%&'( *#'+'&$+, -,%."'+%&/.0 1Ending Medical Experiments on Chimpanzees 1

Harvard to Close Primate Research Center 1

Wayne State Court Victory 2

Tulane University Switches to Simulators 2

A Reprieve for Cats at UVA 3

PCRM Wins Decades-Long Medical School Campaign 3

Saving Animals from Pesticide Tests 4

Elevated Status at the OECD 4

Promoting 21st Century Science 5

Educating Regulators 6

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Clinical Research 6-7

Food for Life 7

21-Day Kickstart 7

Fighting the Diabetes Epidemic 8

e Five Worst Childrens Hospital Food Environments 8

Five Worst Fast-Food Secret Menu Items 8

Warning: Contaminated Chicken 9

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Harvard to Close Primate Research CenterFollowing two years of pressure from PCRM and its members,

Harvard University announced that it will close the New England

Primate Research Center in Southborough, Mass., in 2015. Numerous

monkeys have died or been seriously injured at the facility in recent

years. PCRM has called upon Harvard and NIH to retire the 2,000

monkeys housed there to sanctuaries rather than send them to other

research facilities. We will closely monitor their fate and continue to

advocate on their behalf.

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Saving Animals from Pesticide Tests

PCRM provides leadership in promoting nonanimal alternatives on a national and international level.

In the United States, we participate in a 29-member working group comprised of industry, government,and NGO stakeholders that advises the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on how the

agency can transition away from animal tests to more efficient and reliable methods for testing the

safety of pesticides. PCRMs director of regulatory testing, Kristie Sullivan, M.P.H., was instrumental in

the development of the groups recently issued recommendations to phase out required animal tests for

short-term toxicities such as skin and eye irritation, allergenicity, and acute lethal poisoning. With such

high-profile recommendations from its main stakeholder advisory group, the EPA is feeling pressure to

commit resources to finally make concrete changes. Currently, as many as 13,000 animals die for a single

pesticide to be brought to market; there are more than 10,000 pesticides on the market today.

PCRM also monitors EPA testing requirements for pesticides when they undergo periodic

safety reviews by the agency. In 2013, we succeeded in eliminating animal tests for the fungicide

triphenyltin hydroxide, which is used to control disease in potatoes, beets, and pecans.e test,

which would have been used to determine the effects of exposure on the human immune system,

involves administering the poison to at least 40 animals daily for 28 days without pain relief

then assessing their immune system before killing them.

Elevated Status at the OECD

As Secretariat of the International Council on Animal Protection (ICAPO),

an international coalition of 11 public health and animal protection groups

with invited expert status at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and

Development (OECD), PCRM works on guidance documents, test guidelines,

and other projects to replace, reduce, or refine the use of animals in protocols for chemical testing

guidelines and regulatory programs. is June, in an endorsement of the work that PCRM and

ICAPO have been doing since 2006, ICAPO was invited to take part in the Joint Meeting, which

oversees all work related to coordinating member countries activities on chemical safety and

provides guidance to nonmember (developing) countries. e Joint Meeting sets overall policy

for all of its subsidiary bodies and decides which projects are worth spending limited resources

pursuing. ICAPO intervention at this level ensures that the development of nonanimal test

methods will be a main focus of the OECDs chemical safety work.


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