Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel today issued an opinion that a 1978 law requires the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to register facilities that “keep or use animals for experimental purposes” and must “restrict registration to only those entities that conduct animal research in a humane manner.” The agency must establish these standards.
Although the opinion doesn’t mention Wayne State by name, it gives details of experiments performed there since 1991, in which dogs’ chest cavities are opened, devices and catheters, cables and wires inserted, and then made to run a treadmill to raise their heart rates above normal…until they died.
We urge the DHHS to adopt standards and begin the registration process. Under any reasonable definition of “humane,” these experiments would fail.
This Detroit News article discusses the opinion, and includes quotes from AFA.
