#Act4 LabAnimals New Home Office figures on the use of animals in research in Britain reveal that, despite there being better, humane alternatives available, 2,472 primates were experimented on last year – an increase of 12% on the previous year. Help save primates from suffering in British labs 18 September 2019 ADI
#Act4 LabAnimals Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler signed a directive to prioritize efforts to reduce animal testing. US EPA commits to concrete measures, milestones and timelines to reduce animal testing 10 September 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals European animal protection groups come together to end animal testing in the EU Cruelty Free Europe launch: priority areas set for animals in science 11 July 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals This morning, the Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals discussed the continued use of animals for testing the safety of cosmetic ingredients in the EU. Intergroup meeting report: "The continued use of animals for cosmetics testing in the EU" 28 March 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals China has announced that post-market cosmetic testing in the country will no longer include animal tests. China ends animal testing requirements on post-market cosmetics 14 March 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals The limitations of animal experimentation in improving human healthcare is overwhelming, but more than 11 million animals are still used in research every year in the EU alone. New book proposes ways to move away from animal experimentation 11 March 2019 ADI
#Act4 LabAnimals A new scientific publication by the Cruelty Free International science team, looking at whether drug tests on animals help predict human responses, has been published in the scientific journal BMC Medical Ethics. Scientists confirm that animal tests for human drugs do not work 11 March 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals Recently, many people have noticed the dogs used in animal experiments at the University of Gothenburg. Campaign to increase funding of non-animal research and to phase out animal experimentation 28 February 2019 Djurskyddet Sverige
#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