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- Update Date：2023-07-03
- Units：Laboratory Animal Center
Humane Society International/Canada applauds the passage of historic measures in Bill S-5 to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act
Today’s toolbox of non-animal methods includes an array of sophisticated molecular biology tests that are more time and cost efficient and human relevant. The amendments in Bill S-5 promote their use, paving the way to reducing and ultimately eliminating animal suffering in chemical toxicity testing through technological progress. The new measures include:
- Requiring new approach testing methods that do not use animals where scientifically justified and “practicable.”
- Encouraging the timely development and implementation of alternative methods to animal testing.
- Requiring the government to publish a plan, within two years, detailing steps to achieve these goals.
HSI/Canada is committed to working alongside the Government of Canada and other stakeholders to ensure that all use of animals in toxicity testing—including for pesticides, food and other regulated products—is ultimately relegated to the history books. Furthermore, HSI/Canada will work with these stakeholders to ensure that faster, more effective and relevant new approach methods that do not involve animals are developed and implemented within the Liberal government’s stated timeline of ending all toxicity animal testing by 2035.
Figure. Bill S-5-summary of amendments
Retrieved from Bill S-5, Strengthening Environmental Protection for a Healthier Canada Act - Summary of Amendments - Government of Canada (2023.06.14)
Victory! Canadian Government passes provisions to phase out the use of animals in chemical toxicity testing - Humane Society International (2023.06.13)
Victory! Canadian Government passes provisions to phase out the use of animals in chemical toxicity testing - Humane Society International (2023.06.13)
