ASPA: Number of scientific procedures on animals falls in 2014

• Localización: Veterinary Record, ISSN-e 2042-7670, Vol. 177, Nº. 17, 2015, págs. 428-428
• Idioma: inglés
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  • FIGURES released by the Home Office on October 22 indicate that the number of scientific procedures carried out on animals in Great Britain declined by 6 per cent in 2014, falling from 4.12 million in 2013 to 3.87 million last year.

    However, the Home Office points out that, as a result of amendments to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act to transpose a European Directive into UK law, the way in which the data have been collected for the annual statistics has changed this year; as a result, it says, comparisons between the data for 2014 and previous years should be ‘interpreted with some caution’....