Animals In Scientific Procedures - Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 16 July 2002.
CONTENTS
REPORT
SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
Legislation in the United Kingdom
Trends in animal use
The Three Rs
Comparison to other regulatory systems
Regulation in the United States
Regulation in France
Regulation in Japan
Issues raised
CHAPTER 2: ETHICS
CHAPTER 3: THE PURPOSE AND NATURE OF ANIMAL
EXPERIMENTS
Types of animal experiments
Non-laboratory animal research
Defence research
Government funded research abroad
CHAPTER 4: THE EFFICACY OF ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
Fundamental and applied research
Toxicological research
The development of non-animal toxicological
tests
Toxicology and the law
Potential of developing technologies
CHAPTER 5: REGULATION AND THE ANIMALS (SCIENTIFIC
PROCEDURES) ACT 1986
Weighing of harms and benefits
Licence applications and bureaucracy
Training modules
The Animal Procedures Committee
CHAPTER 6: THE ETHICAL REVIEW PROCESS
Membership of the ERP
CHAPTER 7: THE THREE RS: ALTERNATIVES TO
ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
Use and development of the Three Rs
Centre for the Three Rs
Other ways to promote the Three Rs
CHAPTER 8: GENETICALLY MODIFIED ANIMALS
CHAPTER 9: PUBLIC INFORMATION
A new discussion forum
Product labelling
Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living
Animals, Great Britain
Table: Project licences in force on 31/12/2000
APPENDIX 1: Membership and Declarations of
Interest
APPENDIX 2: Terms of Reference
APPENDIX 3: Committee Visits
APPENDIX 4: Conference Proceedings, 21 May
2002
APPENDIX 5: List of Witnesses
APPENDIX 6: Glossary
Note
The evidence received by the Committee is published
in two separate volumes—Volume II: Oral Evidence (HL 150-II)
and Volume III: Written Evidence (HL 150-III).
In the text of the report:
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| p. | refers to a page in the written evidence; and
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