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Investigation leads to call for lab to stop toxicity tests.
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Inotiv is a company that does animal testing of a drugs. In particular they do drug toxicity tests. Drugs are fed to animals to determine if they are toxic. 
An investigation by The Humane Society of the United States found the animals in disturbing conditions. Even after an animal is clearly ill, they continued to feed it the drug. Animals used in the studies will all be killed. even the primates.
Sadly, even after so many animals have died, the test results  are meaningless. Animal toxicity or tolerance of a drug does not correspond to human tolerance or toxicity. About 90% of the drugs fail when they reach human trials.


https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases...29734.html

I hope the HSUS is successful in fighting this lab and all its testing. It is clearly just wasting animal lives after giving them weeks, months and even years of cruel existence.

All this focus on animal testing actually delays the development of new drugs. If we went straight to methods that would give meaningful results a drug would be cleared for us much earlier. The time spent doing animal testing  is wasted time and wasted resources. We have just gotten ourselves so linked to the idea that we have to test on animals, that we don't actually assess how effective the method is. We need to open up our thinking and find newer more effective, less cruel ways of doing things.
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