The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has shut down an experiment on nicotine addiction that used squirrel monkeys as test subjects. The study, which began in 2014, involved the monkeys self-administering nicotine doses by pulling a lever until they were addicted. By the summer of 2017, four of the test monkeys had died, according to The New York Times. The details of the experiment became public knowledge in March, after the White Coast Waste Project, a group that opposes taxpayer-funded animal experimentation, filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records on the nicotine study. Those steps include establishing an Animal Welfare Council to oversee all animal research conducted by the agency.

Source: Huffington Post January 27, 2018 23:37 UTC