To amend section 495 of the Public Health Service Act to require inspections of foreign laboratories conducting biomedical and behavioral research to ensure compliance with applicable animal welfare requirements, and for other purposes
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Latest Action · July 19, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Worldwide Animal Testing Compliance and Harmonization Act of 2023 or the WATCH Act
This bill subjects foreign laboratories that receive federal funds and that conduct animal research to U.S. animal welfare regulations.
The National Institutes of Health must establish a process to inspect these laboratories on a quarterly basis to ensure compliance with U.S. animal welfare regulations, such as the use of animal care committees and evaluations of animal care and treatment. Laboratories that are found to be noncompliant, and that do not take appropriate corrective action, are subject to funding revocation.
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