Commission says science must progress to meet citizens’ demands to ban animal testing
The European Commission has sided with science groups in a battle over animal research, saying it is not possible to set a date for when the practice can be ended, even as more than one million people demanded exactly that.
Universities and research institutes joined the fray, warning in a joint statement that setting a deadline to end all work with animals “would severely confine European research, with detrimental effects for the health of European citizens”.
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