Policy Issues
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Review of research regulations
This month has seen publication of the long-awaited Hampton Implementation Review Report for the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Division and Inspectorate.
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Lords take balanced approach but concerns remain
Understanding Animal Research welcomes the report published this week by the House of Lords EU Committee.
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Loose laws and bad judgements
Weighing up the cost to animals and the potential benefit of any particular research program is no simple task.
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UK Bioscience submits supplementary evidence to the House of Lords European Union Committee Inquiry
The UK Bioscience sector prepared a submission of supplementary evidence to the House of Lords European Union Committee, Sub –Committee D (Environment and Agriculture) on the revision of Directive 86/609.
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What do they know?
We recently became aware of a new website that can be used to make Freedom of Information requests and acts as an archive for all information received.
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More research means more animals
The 2008 figures for use of animals in UK research were released today by the Home Office.
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UK bioscience sector publishes detailed response on European regulation
A dozen organisations representing UK bioscience have published their answers, many of them detailed, to 72 questions posed by the UK Home Office.
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UK bioscience sector submits evidence to Lords
The House of Lords European Union Committee, Sub-Committee D (Environment and Agriculture) has begun to take oral evidence on the revision of the European Directive on animal experimentation
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MEPs support Agriculture committee report
On Tuesday 5 May, MEPs in the European Parliament held a plenary session in which they voted on the first reading of a proposed revised Directive on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes (the earlier Directive was EU 86/609).
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Remember the Patients
Within the next two weeks MEPs will vote on new European regulations governing medical research using animals across Europe.
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UK bioscience sector Declaration of Support
Eleven leading organisations representing the UK bioscience sector have issued a Declaration of Support for a raft of amendments to European regulation of animal research.
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UK scientists urge MEPs to support Agriculture Committee report
Early in May the full European Parliament votes on the revised Directive on animal experiments.
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MEP Committee sanctions better legal protection for research animals
he Agriculture committee in the European Parliament yesterday voted to pass a report on the revision of EU Directive 86/609 on the protection of animals used in scientific research.
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Bioscience sector urges MEPs to safeguard research
Nine key UK bioscience organisations have signed a Declaration of Concern about revision of EU Directive 86/609, urging MEPs to take a balanced view on revision of European regulation of animal research.
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EU proposals endanger HIV research
Researchers have identified a cheap, commonly-used compound that, applied vaginally, can stop monkeys being infected with a monkey...
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