NEWS ARCHIVE 2000

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DECEMBER 2000

OECD agrees to abolish LD50 test (12/29/2000)

Society of Toxicology gives award for Enhancement of Animal Welfare (12/20/2000)

Doerenkamp-Zbinden Foundation honors two leaders in alternatives field (12/17/2000)

ICCVAM Authorization Act Passes Senate (12/12/2000)

New database on refinement alternatives now available online (12/6/2000)

Animal welfare prize awarded to developers of alternative skin allergy test (12/04/2000)

NOVEMBER 2000

Business leader receives award for promoting use of humane product tests (11/21/2000)

The war between animal research and animal protection is subject of new book (11/17/2000)

OCTOBER 2000

AWIC announces new "Information Resources for Swine in Biomedical Research" (10/27/2000)

Regulatory status of rats, mice, and birds still up in the air (10/20/2000)

SEPTEMBER 2000

ARDF awards grants to five projects in alternatives research (09/12/2000).

AUGUST 2000

JULY 2000

New animal science center studies social concerns related to keeping and using animals (07/25/2000)

Humane Society book argues for alternatives to animal use in education (07/24/2000)

Nordic Prize for Alternatives to Animal Experiments awarded at Denmark's first conference on alternatives (07/20/2000)

New guidance policy on alternatives to painful procedures (07/06/2000)

JUNE 2000

European Union Accepts Three Replacement Alternative Methods (06/29/2000).

New book offers guidance to committees that oversee lab animal care and use (06/21/2000)

NCCR releases revised edition of cost analysis manual for research facilities (06/19/2000)

MAY 2000

Humane Society wages campaign against pain and distress in lab animals (05/05/2000)

NIH reorganizes; animal welfare office is renamed (05/05/2000)

APRIL 2000

MARCH 2000

Federal agencies accept non-animal test for chemical corrosivity (03/22/2000)

New technique evaluates toxic chemicals without animal testing (03/16/2000)

New online database provides descriptions of alternative methods (03/08/2000)

Scientists Center for Animal Welfare honors bioethicist (03/08/2000)

Scientists develop method of synthesizing antibodies (03/01/2000)

FEBRUARY 2000

NIH issues a new guidance document for IACUCs on monoclonal antibody production (02/07/2000)

Australian scientists consider ethical, welfare implications of transgenic animals (02/07/2000)

JANUARY 2000

Four U.S. agencies accept alternative test for contact dermatitis (01/10/2000)