{"id":167791,"date":"2023-07-19T08:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/regulator-says-found-no-animal-welfare-breaches-at-musk-firm-beyond-2019-incident"},"modified":"2023-07-19T08:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T13:23:59","slug":"regulator-says-found-no-animal-welfare-breaches-at-musk-firm-beyond-2019-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/regulator-says-found-no-animal-welfare-breaches-at-musk-firm-beyond-2019-incident","title":{"rendered":"Regulator says found no animal welfare breaches at Musk firm beyond 2019 incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/regulator-says-found-no-animal-welfare-breaches-at-musk-firm-beyond-2019-incident2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>USDA found Neuralink to be in compliance with animal safety and welfare standards after an isolated incident of using an unapproved sealant to close a monkey\u2019s skull in a surgery triggered an investigation. FDA granted a request to begin testing it\u2019s implant device in humans.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>July 19 (Reuters) \u2014 The head of the U.S. agency responsible for animal welfare has told lawmakers that it did not find any violations of animal research rules at Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink beyond a 2019 incident the brain implant company had already reported.<\/p>\n<p>Officials with the Department of Agriculture (USDA) conducted a \u201cfocused\u201d inspection in response to a complaint about the company\u2019s handling of animal experiments, but identified no compliance breaches, the agency\u2019s secretary Thomas Vilsack wrote to Congressman Earl Blumenauer in a July 14 letter reviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The inspection included visits at Neuralink\u2019s two facilities in January 2023, Vilsack wrote, adding that there would be more inspections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USDA found Neuralink to be in compliance with animal safety and welfare standards after an isolated incident of using an unapproved sealant to close a monkey\u2019s skull in a surgery triggered an investigation. FDA granted a request to begin testing it\u2019s implant device in humans. July 19 (Reuters) \u2014 The head of the U.S. agency [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":672,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2019,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-elon-musk","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/672"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}