Animal Welfare Act (FAIL)

The Animal Welfare Act was enacted by Congress and authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to set the standards and requirements for the humane handling, care, treatment, and housing of animals used for testing. This act prohibits the FDA to say what type of research should be done, all species used that are under the AWA are to be regulated by the AWA. The flaw with this Act is that while it sets standards, they are so broad that almost always it is not followed correctly. Another issue with this act is that it does not consider birds and mice which is a vast majority of animals used for testing. In this manner, there is NOT effective regulation for animal testing. If acts like this are going to exist, they should be more strict and specific so that animals are getting covered properly.