In September 2019, the EPA Administrator at the time, Andrew Wheeler, committed the agency to no longer conducting or funding studies on mammals by 2035. He also set an interim target of reducing these studies by 30 % by 2025.

This is no longer mentioned in the current planning under the new management. The former head of the EPA, Andrew Wheeler, explained that a deadline was necessary in order to make serious progress, as otherwise animal testing would continue to be used for the sake of convenience. The project is now toothless, according to a representative of the White Coast Waste Project.

Critics currently see the new non-animal technologies such as organoids, multifluidic systems or in-silico processes as simply a useful supplement to animal testing and have succeeded in convincing the agency's management.

A representative of the EPA told the journal Science that the agency will continue to support research into alternatives to animal testing. The complete elimination of animal testing remains the goal, and the EPA will always pursue that goal, although it is not known when - or if ever - the agency will fully transition to non-animal models, said Christopher Frey, EPA assistant administrator.

Source:
David Grimm (2024). EPA scraps plan to end mammal testing by 2035. Science, doi: 10.1126/science.zbmpq89.
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