Does this sound like an indirect quote? I put it in quotations.

Question

Does this sound like an indirect quote? I put it in quotations.

One of the biggest problems with animal testing is the fact that animals are extremely different from humans, therefore they make bad test subjects. "The National Institutes of Health has noted that 94% of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous." And of the small percentage of drugs approved for human use, half end up being relabeled because of side effects that were not identified in tests on animals.

Answer 1

Here's a direct quotation:

"The role of preclinical animal tests is to check if the drug offers any potential therapeutic value and, importantly, if it is safe enough to move to Phase 1 trials in humans."
from http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/news/communications-media/nine-out-of-ten-statistics-are-taken-out-of-context/

Here's an indirect quotation using the same information:
Dr. Whatshisname believes that pre-clinical testing on animals is needed to decide whether a drug is safe to be tested on humans.

~~ A direct quotation needs to be word-for-word from the source, and the source needs to be cited.

~~ Indirect quotations need to include the writer's or speaker's name in the introductory phrasing and be paraphrased, not quoted.

Answer 2

Yes, the sentence in quotations, "The National Institutes of Health has noted that 94% of all drugs that are shown to be safe and effective in animal tests fail in human trials because they don’t work or are dangerous," is an example of an indirect quote. An indirect quote is a paraphrase or rephrasing of someone else's words or ideas without using their exact wording. In this case, you have put the information from the National Institutes of Health into your own words and enclosed it in quotation marks to indicate that it is not your original statement.