LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Two U.S. congressmen have asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to stop all primate experimentation at an Arkansas laboratory until a “pattern of negligence and abuse can be thoroughly investigated and corrected.”
The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports U.S. Reps. Matt Gaetz and Brendan
Boyle submitted a letter to FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb last week after they became aware of the Aug. 3rd death of a 5-year-old rhesus monkey at the National Center for Toxicological Research near Pine Bluff.
Gottlieb permanently terminated a nicotine study at the Arkansas lab in January 2018 after four squirrel monkeys died there between 2015 and 2017.
The remaining primates from the Arkansas nicotine-addiction study were retired to a sanctuary in Florida. But monkeys are still being used in other tests at the Jefferson County facility.
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