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Massachusetts: Help replace animal experiments with cruelty-free alternatives!

Countless animals are being used to test products every year in Massachusetts laboratories. Dogs are enduring daily force-feedings of potentially toxic substances, chemical substances are applied to guinea pigs’ skin and ingredients used in household cleaners are dripped into rabbits’ eyes.

These harmful tests cause severe animal suffering and often result in death. Thankfully, humane alternatives that are focused on human—instead of animal—biology are increasingly being developed and can be used instead. These alternative non-animal technologies are typically faster, less expensive and more effective than antiquated animal experiments.

H.989/S.640 would require that Massachusetts laboratories use approved alternatives in place of animals whenever available for experiments that test cosmetics, household cleaners, pesticides and industrial chemicals.

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Please take a moment to contact your state legislators using the form below and urge them to support H.989/S.640 to ensure that more animal experiments are replaced with cruelty-free alternatives in Massachusetts laboratories.

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Dear Legislator,

As your constituent, I am writing to urge you to co-sponsor and support H.989/S.640 filed by Representative Lewis and Senator Montigny, which would require Massachusetts laboratories to use approved non-animal test methods whenever available for experiments that assess the safety of cosmetics, household cleaners, pesticides and industrial chemicals. This legislation does not apply to testing done for medical research, including the testing of pharmaceutical products and medical devices.

No longer considered the gold standard of testing, animal experiments carry serious scientific limitations and cause immense suffering to the animals used. In contrast, non-animal alternatives are more efficient and effective. For example, human cell-based tests, organs-on-chips and advanced computer models can deliver results that mimic results in humans in hours or days, unlike some animal tests that can take months or years and are often not applicable to humans. Many of the non-animal alternatives already in use were actually developed by biotech companies based here in Massachusetts such as MatTek (Ashland), Emulate (Boston) and Javelin Biotech (Woburn).

Science is rapidly moving away from outdated animal tests as sophisticated technologies become available. This legislation will ensure that companies in Massachusetts are taking advantage of these newly approved testing strategies while also saving animals from being harmed and killed in outdated and unnecessary tests.

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