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A film Safer Medicines, shows how latest technologies could supplant animal tests in drug development to deliver safer drugs to patients more cost effectively. Described by Tony Benn as "A very important film".
This can be viewed at the Safer Medicines Campaign Website (formerly Europeans for Medical Progress) www.safermedicines.org
An International Development in Alternative Testing:
In the US scientists plan to develop sophisticated ‘robotic machines’ to screen chemicals, a step which could replace invasive animal tests on animals such as mice and rats.
It is in all our interest that Animal Testing is replaced with Alternatives based on Human Biology not Animals.
In Britain some 420,000 animal experiments were conducted in 2006 to test the safety of chemicals. REACH, the largest mass animal testing programme in Europe’s history, will see the testing of 30,000 chemicals on up to 10 millions animals. Non-animal test strategies, like that being looked at in the US, could provide more reliable data, generated more quickly and at a dramatically lower cost than animal tests.
For more on this visit
http://www.drhadwentrust.org/
More information on REACH at
http://www.eceae.org/english/chemicals.html
Thank You
Tony Gallett, London, England
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Posted by TONY_GAL on 2008-03-30 17:40:00 | Rating: | Views: 79
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It is in all our interest that Animal Testing is replaced with Alternatives based on Human Biology not Animals.
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Posted by TONY_GAL
on 2008-03-27 14:41:59
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