HUMANE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS USED 
IN RESEARCH 
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1962 
House of Representatives, 
Subcommittee on Health and Safety of the 
Committee on Interstate and F oreign Commerce, 
W ashing ton, D.G. 
The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:15 a.m., in room 
1334, New House Office Building, Hon. Kenneth A. Roberts (chair- 
man of the subcommittee) presiding. 
Mr. Roberts. The subcommittee will please be in order. 
The Subcommittee on Health and Safety is meeting this morning 
for hearings on H.R. 1937, by Mrs. Griffiths, and H.R. 3556, by our 
colleague on the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Mr. 
Moulder of Missouri. 
These bills provide for the humane treatment of animals used in 
experiments and tests by recipients of grants from the United States 
and by agencies or instrumentalities of the U.S. Government. 
These bills attracted a great deal of interest throughout the coun- 
try. For some time we have been trying to work out a schedule for 
hearings on these bills but, as it is well known, the Committee on 
Interstate and Foreign Commerce has been very busy this session with 
legislation on transportation, communications, health, war claims, 
drugs, and other subjects. 
We have just now had an opportunity to hold hearings on these 
bills. We have witnesses here to explain the purpose and need for 
this legislation and I shall not go into further detail. 
Without objection, copies of the bills and agency reports will be 
inserted in the record at this point. 
(The documents referred to follow :) 
[H.R. 1937, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] 
A BILL To provide for the humane treatment of animals used in experiments and tests by 
recipients of grants from the United States and by agencies and instrumentalities of the 
United States Government, and for other purposes 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That it is declared to be the policy 
of the United States that living vertebrate animals used for scientific experiments 
and tests shall be spared unnecessary pain and fear ; that they shall be used only 
when no other feasible and satisfactory methods can be used to ascertain bio- 
logical and scientific information for the cure of disease, alleviation of suffering, 
prolongation of life, the advancement of physiological knowledge, or for military 
requirements ; and that all such animals shall be comfortably housed, well fed, 
and humanely handled. 
Sec. 2. From and after January 1, 1962, no grant for scientific research, ex- 
perimentation, testing or training, and no advance or payment under any such 
grant, shall be made by or through any agency or instrumentality of the United 
