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- Montreal declaration
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- European Commission publishes report on experimental animals used in 2008
- Basel declaration defends animal research
- The European Directive - 2010/63/EU - is formally adopted
Basel declaration defends animal research
Posted on: 10-12-2010
The Basel Declaration reiterates the legal and ethical requirements of the signatories to reduce the use of animals as far as possible, and to keep their suffering to a minimum. But is also forcefully disputes recent efforts to declare animal use in basis research less acceptable than animal use in experiments that may yield practical benefits.
Published online 6 December 2010 | Nature 468, 742 (2010) |