#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
JRC scientists have co-edited and contributed to a special issue of Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology proposing how alternative methods to animal testing can be used to assess chemicals for their potential to disrupt brain development in children Study of alternatives for testing the neurotoxicity of chemicals shows higher value of in vitro and computational methods over use of animals 6 February 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 FarmAnimals The castration of male piglets is a routine and long-standing practice in pig husbandry, common across most countries in the European Union (EU). European Commission shares best practices for the production, processing and marketing of meat from pigs that are not surgically castrated 29 January 2019
#Act4 Wildlife Here is an overview by policy area Commission urges Cyprus, Czechia, France, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain to speed up actions against invasive alien species 24 January 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals The European Commission will send a team of inspectors to Poland on Monday after a TV report showed sick cows being butchered for food in a Polish slaughterhouse. EC inspectors to investigate Polish slaughterhouse in wake of TV report showing sick cows being slaughtered for food 23 January 2019
#Act4 LabAnimals In its declaration of 25 September 2007 on the use of primates in scientific experiments, Parliament asked the Commission to‘establish a timetable for replacing the use of all primates in scientific experiments with alternatives’. EC to review specific scientific uses of animals following the release of the first EU data in November 19 January 2019
African swine fever is "not out of control" in the European Union, according to EU Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. Commissioner Andriukaitis says African Swine Fever is not out of control 18 January 2019
#Act4 FarmAnimals Phil Hogan (58) has been responsible for agricultural policy in the EU Commission since 2014. Commissioner Hogan says CAP compensates farmers for damages caused by wolves and points out to existing funding opportunities to improve animal welfare 17 January 2019
#Act4 Wildlife The Bird Protection League (LPO - Ligue pour la Protection des Oiseaux) announced Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against France before the European Commission. She demands a ban on the hunt for glue, which the Council of State has refused her. Hunting birds with glue: a complaint against France before the European Commission 4 January 2019