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Nature 417, 106 (9 May 2002) | doi:10.1038/417106c
Welfare amendment omits lab animals
Virginia Gewin
In a victory for biomedical research lobbyists, rodents and birds are to remain outside the scope of the Animal Welfare Act, the main US animal-protection law.Under an amendment to the current farm bill placed by Senator Jesse Helms (Republican, North Carolina), the US Department of Agriculture will be forbidden from extending the act to cover the animals most widely used in research.
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