MAINE PUBLIC • March 12, 2023
Senator Susan Collins has introduced legislation that would require all federal agencies that use lab animals to have policies to retire them to forever homes or reputable sanctuaries. Justin Goodman, spokesman for the White Coat Waste Project, says since 2018 the White Coat Waste Project, with the help of Collins and other lawmakers, has prompted the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institutes of Health to create retirement policies for lab animals. But ten other federal agencies, he says, have yet to adopt similar policies.