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A recent blog on the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act by Kristin Bauer and Martin Wasserman (A shared passion for ending chimpanzee experiments, May 9, 2012) was filled with inaccuracies, some of which are refuted below.
 
The authors assert that “. . . the Institute of Medicine’s recent report on chimpanzee experimentation found that chimpanzees aren’t needed for a single area of human health research.”

In fact, the Great Ape Protection Act would eliminate chimpanzee research despite the findings of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report and the charge to the National Institutes of Health Working Group on the Use of Chimpanzees in NIH-Supported Research.

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