In response to the issues posed in this scenario, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) and the National Institutes of Health Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (NIH-OLAW) provide the following clarifications. In this scenario, a nonscientific...
Kevin Shea runs the USDA agency in charge of that process, which has been criticized in the past for being too slow. He told a congressional panel that the backlog for approvals has been rapidly reduced in the last two years. There were 34 in the queue a couple of years ago, but ...