AR-News: (UK)Centre to cut down on animal research

[Animalconcerns]

A plan for a national centre to research and develop alternatives to using
animals in medical experiments are to be unveiled by the government.

The science minister, Lord Sainsbury, said last night that proposals for a
centre to develop non-animal testing would be announced "within a few days".

The move comes weeks after Cambridge University's decision, in the wake of
violent animal rights protests, to scrap a planned primate research lab to
investigate brain conditions.

A centre focusing on finding alternatives was first suggested by a House
of Lords inquiry in 2002. It said it should be based on a facility at
Johns Hopkins University in the US that coordinates research into the
so-called three Rs: replacement, refinement and reduction of animals in
research. 
...
Wendy Higgins, of the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection,
said: "We fear that a national centre for the 'three Rs' risks being
hijacked by an agenda focused more on refinement and reduction than on
replacement."

full story:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/story/0,11032,1156336,00.html

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