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🚨The proposed Draft Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Control and Supervision of Experiment, Breeding and Trading of Laboratory Animals) Rules, 2026 roll back three decades of vital animal protection safeguards. Major red flags in the draft framework include: 🚨Self-Approval Kills Independent Scrutiny (Rule 11): Institutional Animal Ethics Committees (IAECs) would get the power to greenlight "mild" and "moderate" experiments internally without prior central CCSEA clearance. When the applicant acts as the approving authority, conflict of interest eliminates independent oversight. 🚨Pain Scale Manipulation (Rule 7 & Annexure I): Prolonged solitary confinement, nutritional deprivation, inescapable distress, and tumour induction are reclassified as merely "mild" or "moderate" to bypass central review. Severe lethal-endpoint toxicity testing remains permissible. 🚨Open Market Animal Sourcing (Rule 21(2)): Laboratories could procure farm animals, birds, and fish from unregistered suppliers and open markets when registered breeders fall short. This destroys traceability, compromises research validity, and fuels illicit animal trade. Why new draft Indian rules for lab animal procurement matter to U.S. Use of “random source” street animals in drug safety testing is a big step backward for both animal welfare & human health, including for Americans taking Indian-made generic pharmaceuticals animals24-7.org/2026/10/28/w… 🚨Loopholes for Street & Wild Animals (Rule 5): Despite nominal prohibitions, wide exceptions allow stray dogs, feral cats, and protected wildlife to be funneled into testing laboratories under vague "scientific justifications". 🚨Dilution of Welfare Safeguards: The draft drops explicit mandatory anaesthesia mandates from the 1998 rules, relaxes restrictions on reusing traumatised animals, and reduces lifelong post-experiment rehabilitation duties to non-binding future guidelines. 🚨Makeshift Facilities (Rule 2(i)): Expanding legal definitions to include non-enclosed spaces and mobile testing vans introduces severe biosafety risks, hazardous waste disposal gaps, and public health threats. 🚨Ignoring Validated #NAMs : While international regulators (US FDA, EU Directive 2010/63/EU) legally prioritize non-animal New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), India risks deregulating cruelty rather than mandating human-relevant organ-on-a-chip, 3D bioprinting, and AI technologies. Over 90% of drugs that pass animal trials fail in human clinical testing. The Flaws and Human Harms of Animal Experimentation pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article… @Dept_of_AHD @narendramodi We urge the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying to withdraw Draft Animal Experimentation Rules G.S.R. 864(E) in its entirety and commit to a time-bound transition toward ethical, animal-free science. Send Objections Now : tinyurl.com/4y9z92yy @RajatSharmaLive @_Shiwangi__ @joedelhi @LavanyaBallal @RenukaCCongress @STARDHRUVPATEL @thevirdas @TheJohnAbraham @PetaIndia @asharmeet02 #StopAnimalTesting #WithdrawAnimalTestingRules #AnimalFreeScience #IndiaTVAgainstAnimalTesting