Act Now and Replace Animal Testing with Alternatives in Europe

[Guest guest]

TO: All People Who Care in Asian Animal Protection Network

 

The European Commission (EC) is currently reviewing Directive

86/609/EEC, which sets out the rules for animal experimentation

across the whole of Europe. There is still time to make a difference

to the final draft.

 

A new European Chemical Testing Policy called REACH proposes to Test

30,000 Chemicals of every kind - from those used in industrial

processes to the ingredients of consumer products - on Millions of

animals from mice to fish to dogs, causing untold suffering. This

Directive should help these animals while still improving standards.

 

The European Commission itself acknowledges that non-animal

replacements " ...have the potential to provide robust information

through quality-controlled, state-of-the-art tests which are faster

and less cost-intensive than classical animal-based tests " .

 

It has launched a Community Action Plan for the Protection and

Welfare of Animals. This explicitly states " The final aim is to

replace animal experiments with methods not entailing the use of an

animal. "

 

It is in all our interest that Animal Testing is replaced with

Alternatives based on Human Biology not Animals.

 

For evidence that superior Alternative Research & Testing is

replacing Animal Testing visit

http://www.drhadwentrust.org/

 

Please sign " Replace all Animal Experiments in Europe "

http://www.endeuanimaltests.org/

 

Now political pressure is needed to encourage EU legislators to do

everything they can to maximise non-animal replacement efforts.

 

Contact your MEPs and urge them to use the revision process of

Directive 86/609/EC as an opportunity to update the Standards of

Animal Welfare in European Laboratories and make replacing with

Alternatives a priority.

 

For contact details of your MEPs visit

http://www.europarl.europa.eu

 

If you want to do more:-

Over 10,000 primates are used in experiments in Europe every year

with the UK being Europe's largest single user followed by France

and Germany.

 

Please write to the European Commission and ask them to ban primate

tests. To help, a prepared letter can be found at

http://www.eceae.org/saveprimates/en/action.html

 

Please tell your friends and colleagues to do the same.

 

More information on Animal Testing from

http://www.peta.org/

http://www.buav.org

 

Everyone can help and you can make a difference.

 

Thank You

 

Tony, Nottingham, England