MEPS AND EU SCIENTISTS BACK PRIMATES RESEARCH FOR MEDICINAL CARE PRODUCTS
April 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament's agriculture committee has backed the continued use of apes and monkeys when testing medicinal creams, calling for a loosening of restrictions proposed by the European Commission. Brussels has tabled a directive that would restrict the use of non-human primates in consumer product testing to treatments for "life-threatening or debilitating" illnesses. However, the EP committee has tabled amendments removing this condition, allowing any medicinal products to be tested on these animals. MEPs fear the restriction ...
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