Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Medical Research" produced 16 items.
| 1. A gaping hole in new rules on animal tests | July 15, 2010 |
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Are the claims made for the animal experiments directive correct? Some simple clarification would settle the questions. The European Parliament's agriculture committee on... | |
| 2. Poisonous regulation | May 6, 2010 |
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Much more needs to be done to ensure that animal testing is the last resort. It is surprising that your article on the REACH regulation on chemicals (“Complex legislation... | |
| 3. Honesty and openness in animal testing debate | January 7, 2010 |
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The Parliament's portrayal of its compromise on the directive on animal experiments was distorted. It is not often that an NGO congratulates the European Parliament press... | |
| 4. Spot-checks for labs running animal tests | December 17, 2009 |
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Laboratories that use animals in scientific experiments will be subject to new checks.
Laboratories that use animals in scientific experiments will be subject to... | |
| 5. MEPs in bust-up over animal testing | March 26, 2009 |
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Deputies in row over revising 1986 directive on EU rules on animal experiments. A row has flared up in the European Parliament over a draft law to revise the EU's 1986 rules... | |
| 6. MEPs approve shake-up of cosmetics regulation | March 19, 2009 |
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Nanomaterials under scrutiny; plans to phase out animtal tests unchanged. MEPs are expected to vote next week (24 March) in favour of scrapping more than 3,500 pages of... |
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| 7. The EU must think again on animal research | January 8, 2009 |
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Commission's inexpert, untransparent committee has produced a one-sided and unscientific inquiry into the use of animals for research. The European Coalition to End Animal... | |
| 8. Ban on tests on great apes proposed | November 5, 2008 |
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Commission seeks to limit animal testing; animal-welfare group urges more spending on alternatives.
Great apes – such as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans –... | |
| 9. Replacing, reducing and refining animal experiments | July 3, 2008 |
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Causing a minimum of pain and distress has become the guiding principle of animal testing. In 1959 William Russell and Rex Burch, in a paper entitled ‘The Principles of... |
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| 10. Chemicals and animals | October 19, 2006 |
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We are glad the debate on proposals for a new European law governing the regulation of chemicals (REACH) is hitting the headlines (‘EU sets stage for fight on chemicals',... | |
| 11. Rules for rules' sake are hindering scientific research | May 19, 2005 |
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Competitiveness is the buzz word in the EU at present. To have a real effect, it must be taken into consideration even for what might be thought of as the most difficult and... | |
| 12. Suffering for science: chemicals law could hit animals hardest | February 24, 2005 |
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Two MEPs give their views on how the proposed chemicals directive could affect animal testing Although animal welfare groups have contributed a lot to REACH, not all their... | |
| 13. Chemicals policy threatens animals | September 25, 2003 |
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Your report ‘Chemicals policy ‘threatens German jobs'', (European Voice, 18-24 September), states that the Federation of German Industries (BDI) and the French Government... | |
| 14. Animal activists attack planned chemical tests | September 7, 2000 |
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ANIMAL rights groups are urging the European Commission to abandon plans to require tests on thousands of chemicals manufactured before 1983, warning that its proposals could... | |
| 15. Animal test ban chances remote | October 10, 1996 |
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ANIMAL welfare lobbyists are calling on the European Commission to press ahead with plans to ban the use of animals to test cosmetics, amid signs that the practice is likely... | |
| 16. European Voice | Special reports | Animal welfare
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