ANIMAL TESTS
June 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLNEW alternative methods of drug testing that are supposed to save up to 200,000 rabbits a year have been unveiled by the European Commission. The six tests detect potential fever-causing agents (pyrogens) in drugs, by using human blood cells instead of rabbits; they have been developed by a EU-supported research team, involving national control laboratories, test developers, and pharmaceutical companies. The Commission claims that the new methods will save rabbits from being used to test for pyrogens in non-oral drugs. EU research Commissioner ...
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