#Act4 LabAnimals The ethical responsibility for the animals is questionable in the animal testing ethics committees, says the organization Animal Rights, which now, after 37 years, stops nominating members to the committees. Djurens Rätt quits animal-based project evaluation committees due to lack of ethical responsibility 22 February 2019 Djurens Rätt
#Act4 LabAnimals The JRC's status report on alternatives to animal testingis just out. The EC Joint Research Centre's alternatives to animal testing - Going for the win-win-win 7 February 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals We have today written to government Ministers across the European Union urging them to step in to save cruelty free cosmetics. Cruelty Free International launches new petition to safeguard EU ban on animal testing for cosmetics 31 January 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals This case concerned how the European Commission deals with updates of the Test Method Regulation (TMR), which defines the approved methods for chemical testing in the EU. Ombudsman suggests intensified efforts by Commission to speed uptake of non-animal chemical testing methods 30 January 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals Professor Dr Mariann Gyöngyösi from the Experimental and Clinical Invasive Cardiology Laboratory of the Medical University of Vienna discusses different animal models in the context of her group’s research into treatments for cardiovascular diseases. EU investments in heart research goes to animal experiments with no view to alternatives 14 January 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals Why are thousands of animals in the EU once again at risk of suffering for cosmetics? Cruelty Free International slams European Chemicals Agency for endangering the future of cruelty free cosmetics in Europe 9 January 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals Ahead of International Primate Day on 1 September, Animal Defenders International (ADI) has released video footage of the routine suffering primates at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, experience before the experiments even begin. ANIMAL DEFENDERS INTERNATIONAL: Undercover video shows routine suffering of primates at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) in the Netherlands 31 August 2018 ADI
#Act4 LabAnimals On 18 May 2018 Schweizer Tierschutz held its 11th annual meeting on the topic of animal testing. New contributions to the 3Rs and alternatives to animal testing 30 July 2018 Schweizer Tierschutz STS
#Act4 LabAnimals The undercover investigation in the University Hospital, Jette Campus of the Free University of Brussels (VUB) reveals cruel treatment of animals used for testing and other scientific purposes. Intolerable suffering of research animals revealed in Belgium 29 November 2016 GAIA