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Nancy Payton, humane issues analyst for the Massachusetts Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), who is testifying at the hearings today, said she hopes to amend the federal Animal Welfare Act to make scientists more accountable for their research. Under current law and regulations, applicants for NIH funds must submit a proposal that specifies what research will be done for review by the organization. Additionally, universities and research centers are subject to state and local animal cruelty laws and to reviews within their own institutions...
...Harvard, a researcher must submit a research proposal to a University animal committee and, in accordance with state law, must submit the experiment to inspection by the Massachusetts SPCA...
...state Pound Seizure Law allows medical research institutions to obtain pound animals for use in experimentation. Under provisions of the law, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) retains inspection rights of all animal research...
...several groups, including the state's SPCA and the New England Anti-vivisection Society, are attempting to repeal the pound law. Dr. Ronald Hunt, director of the center and professor of Comparative Pathology, is coordinating an effort by several Boston area medical schools to thwart this attempt...
Rodger said the Massachusetts SPCA has objected to the Primate Center's use of restraining "chairs" in the course of research. Monkeys at the center are less tame than dogs used in research, he said, because often they come to the center as wild adults, making it necessary to sedate them before experimentation and then to immobilize them in a chair...