FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In effect, the revisions to the FD&C Act and the PHS Act are designed to encourage the use of alternatives to animal testing not eliminate animal testing in drug development. adequate to justify the proposed clinical testing.” The pre-existing statutory language did not require animal testing.

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biobide

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Where possible, NAM s seek to avoid the use of animal testing or at least to reduce it. However, reports drawn up as recently as June 2023 still emphasize the necessity of animal testing at some point as we are still far from understanding and reproducing all the variables present in a whole organism in an in vitro or in silico model.

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Drug Discovery World

JULY 20, 2023

Diana Spencer summarises the key messages from the ‘Drug Repurposing: Challenges and Opportunities’ Symposium held at the 19th World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (WCP) 2023. She urged that new methodologies are needed to reduce human and animal testing to establish safety and efficacy.

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Agency IQ

JUNE 9, 2023

The guidance looks very different from the draft that was published in February 2020, including changes in the scope of the guidance, its sponsorship, and the removal of all mentions of nonhuman primates for animal testing. Nonclinical studies encompass much more than just animal studies.

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The Premier Consulting Blog

APRIL 25, 2023

President Biden of the United States (US) has recently signed into law the Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations Bill, which included the FDA Modernization Act 2.0. As a result, the FDA is now required to consider alternatives to animal testing, such as in vitro , in silico , and in chemico tests and models.

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