
By BY ANDREW JACOBS AND MATT RICHTEL from NYT Health https://ift.tt/34HYx8i

At the end of pregnancy, a woman's uterus and the baby take up a large portion of the body.
The EPA has long required that new chemicals be tested on a variety of animals -- including rats, dogs, birds and fish -- to assess their toxicity. The percentage of tests that involve mammals was not immediately available from the EPA.
