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Newly discovered green comet comes close to Earth

Astronomers say the object’s journey toward us took around 50,000 years science@gairrhydd.com streamlined process to market and the customer, as using animals requires strict licensing and legislation. But will it be as safe?

New medicines need not be tested on animals to receive U.S. Food and Drug Administration approva l. Source: Understaning Animal Research (via Wikimedia Commons)

US government brought in to allow manufacturers to use alternative testing methods to animal testing to investigate the safety and effectiveness of a drug. However, the change doesn’t ban the testing of drugs on animals outright. Pharmaceutical companies can still test on animals prior to humans if they choose too. A very high percentage of drugs, in the region of 90%, that