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Europe votes for better regulation of animal experiments
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FIFTY years ago, William Russell, a classics scholar, and Rex Burch, a microbiologist, outlined how the use of animals in scientific research could be made more humane. They wanted scientists to restrict the use of animals, to refine their experiments to minimise distress and to replace testing on animals with alternative techniques. Although the “3Rs” have become a guiding principle, the number of sro gold animals used today remains far higher than Russell and Burch would have accepted. Finally, that may be changing. On May 5th the European Parliament voted to update the rules on the use of animals in research.
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Some 12m animals are used in scientific procedures each year in Europe. Most are mice and rats. The European directive on how such cheap sro gold animals should be treated dates from 1986, long before research led to the breeding of the first creatures that carried the genes of another species. Some countries have more restrictions than others. Britain, for example, uses far fewer primates in scientific research than does France. The European Commission said in November 2008 that it wanted to update the silkroad online gold rules to better protect laboratory animals throughout Europe. It received hundreds of amendments, but has adopted few of them.
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In particular, the politicians decided against an outright ban on the use of great apes. Instead they voted to allow such experiments only when they are intended to buy sro gold conserve the number of chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orang-utans, or when using these species becomes essential to tackling a disease that threatens people. In practice, no great apes have been used in Europe for years and there are no breeding colonies from which to take them. In America, chimpanzees are being used to develop a vaccine for hepatitis C because they are the only creatures, other than humans, to be afflicted by the Cheap silkroad online gold disease.
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Another proposal was to ban the use of primates caught in the wild. Scientists prefer to work with the offspring of animals raised in laboratories because knowledge of the creatures’ complete medical history makes them (sro gold )more dependable. The commission will investigate whether breeding colonies can be established within the next decade for all species used in research. Every other year, it will also conduct a review of the use of primates, mostly macaque monkeys, in research. Less than 0.1% of the animals used in research in Europe are primates.
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All experiments will be classified according to the degree of pain and distress they cause. If mild or moderate, animals can be used again. Those that silkroad online gold experience severe pain will be killed. The legislation would allow mild procedures to be approved by an employer. But those causing moderate or severe pain would need the permission of a national authority.
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Sharing information freely should help to reduce the number of animals scientists use. Today they usually publish the results of their research only if they are positive, but if there is more data about negative results, scientists are less likely to buy silkroad online gold repeat experiments needlessly.
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The commission also agreed to expand the work of the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods to develop, cheap sro gold,co-ordinate and promote procedures that can replace animal testing. That is important because, at present, the centre concentrates on toxicology tests that account for only about 10% of animal experiments in Europe, whereas most animals are used in basic medical research. Any alternatives in Europe will need to be buy sro gold accepted by authorities worldwide to avoid animal tests being imposed elsewhere.
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With elections for a new parliament soon to take place, MEPs are unlikely to see the reform through until at least 2010. It will then be up to member states to adopt the legislation, which silkroad gold could take another couple of years. Russell and Burch would have been pleased that progress is being made, but appalled at its slow pace.
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