Animals in Labs Article from All-Creatures.org
Finally an Alternative to Stealing Horseshoe Crabs' Blue Blood
September 2024
The new ruling means that this is no longer required, potentially saving many thousands of horseshoe crabs from much misery and deaths.
Abducted, transported to a lab, cruelly stabbed and drained of
40% of their blood as their gills painfully dry out, and thrown back
in critical condition on the beach - often to die. Image by Timothy
Fadek as posted on
IDA In Defense of Animals
Thanks to a long-time in the coming decision by
the US
Pharmacopeia (the primary non-governmental drug industry regulator) thousands
of horseshoe crabs will no longer be repeatedly caught and their blood
drained. US
Pharmacopeia has approved the use of non-animal derived agents to
test for toxins in certain medicines.
Every year, thousands of horseshoe crabs have been caught and much of their blood drained to provide chemicals used in drug safety testing. The new ruling means that this is no longer required, potentially saving many thousands of horseshoe crabs from much misery and deaths.
From PubMed: Saving the horseshoe crab: A synthetic alternative to horseshoe crab blood for endotoxin detection.
Posted on All-Creatures.org: September 17, 2024
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