Megan
Gannon, News Editor
Date:
23 January 2013 Time: 06:34 PM ET
A
majority of the chimpanzees used for research by the U.S. National Institutes
of Health (NIH) should be retired, a government panel concluded this week.
The
report issued by a working group within the NIH's Council of Councils said a
small population of 50 chimpanzees should be kept for future research, while
planning should start immediately to put retired apes in sanctuaries.
The
panel had been tasked to advise the NIH on what to do with the agency's 360
chimpanzees that aren't retired and still live at research facilities after the
Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report over a year ago concluding that
most biomedical research on the primates was not necessary.
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