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An end to laboratory animals?
[mis à jour le 23 October 2006 à 08h24]
The European Parliament’s Environment Committee has tabled an amendment reintroducing toxicogenomics as one of the evaluation methods for the future regulation of chemical products (Reach). This represents a victory for Association Antidote Europe.
For a number of years, the Association has been demanding the abandonment of animal testing and has proposed an alternative: toxicogenomics. A barbarous name for a method that studies the behaviour of human cell cultures when exposed to chemical substances.
According to Antidote officials, “the Reach project will be arming itself with a very fast, reliable method that is less costly than the animal tests that Thomas Harting, a European Commission scientist has described as ‘bad science’”. They are hoping that this amendment will be retained in the final version of Reach”. The vote on the second reading is due to take place on 14 November.
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