United States of America: Development of Alternatives to Animal Use for Safety Testing and Hazard Assessment
Dialogue and cooperative efforts between industry, government regulatory agencies, academic scientists and animal protection organizations have produced a workable strategy to replace, reduce and refine the use of animals for safety testing and hazard assessment. Over the past twenty years, animal use in one industry (cosmetics and personal care products) has been greatly reduced. Other industries are currently facing challenges similar to those confronted by the cosmetics industry in the past and might benefit from actively pursuing the 3Rs (replacement, reduction, refinement) approach, which integrates concern for animal welfare with a commitment to progressive scientific policy and practice.
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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: The Songtaaba Women’s Group has transformed karite processing and made it into a substantial industry run by women, from production to marketing of a wide range of consumer products.
The Songtaaba Women’s Group has been transforming one of the few economic assets in Sahelian Africa controlled by women — karite butter — from a less-than-subsistence, informal-sector activity into a formalized and systematized cottage industry capable of generating not only dramatically increased incomes, but also new jobs, new skills and opportunities, and the organizational training for further expansion of women into the formal economic activities. The Songtaaba Women’s Group, is headed by its founder, Marcelline Ouédraogo. (The name Songtaaba, in the Moore language, means “to help one another.”)
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