Groups Sue to Tighten Oversight of Rodents

Abstract

A coalition of animal rights advocates--including three academic scientists and a biomedical supply company--announced this week that it will go to federal court to force the U.S. government to redefine mice, rats, and some birds as animals under a major animal protection law. The change is needed, they argue, to bring the country9s most widely used experimental animals under federal regulations that require researchers to consider alternatives.