Dear Editor,
It's time that animal-loving Americans rise up and stop the unnecessary
toxicity testing on animals.
Congress has directed that the National Institutes of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS) create a five-year plan to research, develop,
translate and validate new and revised non-animal and other alternative
assays into the federal agency testing programs.
Because such a report is a critical first step in reducing, refining
and replacing the use of animals in toxicity testing, each of us
needs to contact David A. Schwartz, M.D., the Director of the National
Institutes
of Environmental Health Sciences to urge that he and his staff immediately
get to work on this report. We also need to keep in touch with theNIEHS
to encourage them to see this plan through to implementation.
Dr. Schwartz's office can be reached by calling (919) 541-3201 or
by writing to NIEHS, 111 T.W. Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park,
NC 27709 or by emailing him at schwartzd@niehs.nih.gov.
On behalf of helpless animals everywhere, I urge you, stand up, speak
out, write, call, fax or email. Do not let the matter rest. Give no
rest to those who have it in their power to give animals relief.
Make your voice heard for the animals - they are depending on us!
Susan Kemenyas
