42 U.S.C. § 285l–1 — Applied Toxicological Research and Testing Program

submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 103-43 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 168 words · no verdicts yet

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The Institute runs a program to test chemical safety, called the Applied Toxicological Research and Testing Program. It studies how environmental chemicals affect health. It also develops testing methods that use fewer animals.

(a) This section creates a program inside the Institute called the Applied Toxicological Research and Testing Program. Its job is applied toxicology research and testing. (b) Running this program, the Director must: (1) grow what is known about how environmental agents affect health; (2) collect more toxicology information on chosen chemicals; (3) build and check testing methods, including alternative methods that can reduce or eliminate the use of animals in safety testing; (4) set standards for approving alternative test methods for regulatory use, and suggest a process for getting scientifically proven alternative methods accepted; (5) share research results with government agencies, medical and scientific communities, regulators, and the public; and (6) connect related activities across the Department of Health and Human Services.

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(a)

There is established within the Institute a program for conducting applied research and testing regarding toxicology, which program shall be known as the Applied Toxicological Research and Testing Program.

(b)

In carrying out the program established under subsection (a), the Director of the Institute shall, with respect to toxicology, carry out activities—

(1)

to expand knowledge of the health effects of environmental agents;

(2)

to broaden the spectrum of toxicology information that is obtained on selected chemicals;

(3)

to develop and validate assays and protocols, including alternative methods that can reduce or eliminate the use of animals in acute or chronic safety testing;

(4)

to establish criteria for the validation and regulatory acceptance of alternative testing and to recommend a process through which scientifically validated alternative methods can be accepted for regulatory use;

(5)

to communicate the results of research to government agencies, to medical, scientific, and regulatory communities, and to the public; and

(6)

to integrate related activities of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 463A, as added Pub. L. 103–43, title XIII, § 1301(a), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 169.)

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1944Enacted · Pub. L. 103-43 · 107 Stat. 169

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