Irish universities have purchased over 46,000 live animals for research use between 2017 and 2018, with Trinity and University College Cork far surpassing the national average. Read more...
In January 2019 the Health Business Services, tendered for consultancy companies to bid to write a report ‘to determine the feasibility of establishing a Large Animal Test Facility in Ireland’, following lobbying from multi-national biotech firms. Read more...
The IAVS and colleagues in the ECEAE are welcoming news that French pharmaceutical company Ipsen has received approval in August 2018 to move away from severely cruel live animal tests to use a cell-based method to test botox products sold in the EU and Switzerland. Read more...
The Irish Government has revealed another increase in the number of animals subjected to painful tests in the country’s laboratories. In 2017 there was a 7% rise in experiments to 242,302, compared with 226,934 in 2016. Read more...
Ireland’s research centre for medical devices is to consider developing a national animal testing lab, to trial medical implants on large animals.
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New figures covering 2016 released by the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) have revealed a disturbing trend of increasing animal cruelty in Irish laboratories. Read more...
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