Pesticide testing on Beagles in Canada is ending
Canada’s Pesticide Management and Regulatory Agency (PMRA) have decided to end the regulation that required testing pesticides on animals. Canada follows the US which made changes that which reduced its year-long testing requirement to 90 days. Health Canada regulations forced the pesticide industry to conduct year-long toxicity tests on beagles. The beagle’s docility makes it the ideal candidate for biomedical laboratories, universities, medical, and veterinary schools. And they are relatively small-sized dogs, so research facilities can house more of them. Pesticide testing would require up to 65 dogs that would vary in intensity of testing for controlled research purposes. The dogs would be fed or exposed to pesticide-ridden food and environments in an effort to see how the chemicals will affect humans. After the research period is complete, the dogs were euthanized and studied see the damage the chemicals did to their internal organs.
