EPA Report Weighs Opportunities, Barriers For NAM Use Across Programs

EPA has published a long-awaited report on how environmental statutes and its implementing rules allow -- or bar -- use of advanced toxicity testing methods known as new approach methods (NAMs) as alternatives to live-animal studies, advancing the agency’s long-pending “workplan” that aims to boost NAMs’ adoption at a host of programs. On Sept. 24, the agency released its review of “ Statutory and Regulatory Requirements ” that apply to vertebrate animal testing, and where they give “flexibility” to implement...