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Sestopotere, Italy

Reports that Malaysia is in discussions with a number of animal testing companies, including an unnamed French company to set up a facility using long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) imported from nearby countries, has raised concerns that European research companies, in an effort to avoid the growing public criticism of animal experimentation and attempts to impose tighter restrictions on the use of primates within the EU, may be looking to set up primate facilities in countries where regulations are more lax. This appears to be the case in Malaysia, where there is reportedly no legislation governing the use of animals in research. The use of non-human primates in research is being questioned internationally most recently in the European Union, by scientists as well as others.

The establishment of a primate facility in Malaysia would encourage further use of these animals at a time when this very practice is being challenged.

The campaign is receiving international media attention.

AFP, Google News
France 24

8th January 2009

The European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE) along with numerous other animal protection, medical research and patient safety organisations representing millions of supporters in Europe and further afield recently submitted a formal complaint about the inquiry set up by the European Commission into non-human primate (NHP) research and humane alternatives to it.

Forskere vil klippe tær av mus

Genforskere vil merke mus ved at ytterste tåledd kuttes av.

Når en bedriver genforskning ved hjelp av dyreforsøk, er det viktig at musene er nøyaktig merket slik at de ikke blandes. Forskere ved Norsk Transgen Senter ønsker å innføre en ny metode for merking som innebærer å klippe tærne av små mus.

- Det er veldig viktig at vi er sikre på at vi har med rett mus å gjøre. Og ved å merke dem ved å klippe ytterste ledd av tærne, er en helt sikker, sier daglig leder Mikael Vestberg ved Norsk Transgen Senter.

2,9 millioner laks til ett dyreforsøk

Det offentlige forvaltningsorganet Forsøksdyrutvalget (FDU) offentliggjorde i dag sin årlige rapport til Mattilsynet om deres virksomhet i 2007, skriver Dagbladet.no.

The European Coalition to End Animal Experiments held its biannual meeting in Croatia in March 2008. Members organised a well-supported End Primates Experiments demo in one of the main squares of Zagreb, calling on the EU to ban tests on primates. Although Croatia is not yet part of the EU, the country has a progressive Animal Protection Act (2006) banning the testing of animals on cosmetics and household products and their ingredients.

On 27th June the ECEAE held a demonstration on the steps of the European Parliament in Brussels to call for an end to primate experiments to be included in the revision to Directive 86/609.

The ECEAE also demonstrated outside the nearby offices of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), an international company that uses hundreds of monkeys in experiments.