Unfortunately, it often takes months to obtain a response and when a response does arrive, it often cites numerous exemptions as grounds to withhold complete information. To obtain information about chimpanzees in federal and private laboratories, Project R&R has submitted and resubmitted many FOIA requests. It also applies only to documents available at federal government agencies. The law has many loopholes that allow federal agencies to dodge or refuse information requests. FOIA is a crucial accountability tool, but the request process is slow, laborious, and sometimes expensive.

The main tool for the public to use to obtain information about the work of federal agencies is the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Freedom of Information Act: A crucial, but limited tool In our quest to provide accurate and insightful information, Project R&R welcomes any feedback or additional knowledge about the current or historic use of chimpanzees in U.S. One of the most comprehensive and direct sources of information on what nonhuman species endure in research comes from former laboratory workers who feel compelled to speak about their experiences. At worst, finding such information can be nearly impossible, a situation that allows the welfare of the animals used for biomedical research to be largely hidden from public view.

The answers to these questions should be readily available to the public, but uncovering these facts is often a painstaking, lengthy process that in the end may yield little or confusing information. laboratories? Who are they? What kinds of experiments were they subjected to? What are their living conditions? Freedom of Information Act Uncovering the truth

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