More than 90,000 animals were used for testing in Irish laboratories in 2022, according to the latest figures from the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA). The study comes as animal rights groups continue to call for alternative ways to test medicines. In its annual report, the HPRA said mice were the most commonly used species for tests, at 72%, while rats, pigs, and sheep were also experimented on. The total number of uses of animals in testing overall was 92,939, while some animals were tested on more than once.
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Animals used 240k times for research last year
Live animals including dogs, horses, and rabbits, were used in research and testing procedures 242,302 times last year — up 7% since 2016. The number...
290k animals used in experiments
Almost 300,000 animals were used in Ireland last year to test the safety, quality, and potency of medicines. A report from the Health Products Regulatory...
232,000 animals used in Irish lab experiments in 2012
More than 230,000 animals were used for experimentation in Irish laboratories in 2012 — more than six times the number used in 2005. Figures released...
Government vows to ensure cosmetics comply with ban on animal testing
A Government pledge to check that cosmetics being sold in Ireland comply with an international animal testing ban has been welcomed by animal rights groups....
Fury at animal killing law
Animal rights campaigners have expressed fury that the Government has ignored calls for a ban on the killing of newborn animals by “concussion or blow...
Animal test suffering loophole criticised
Animal welfare groups have hit out at Government plans to implement a loophole clause allowing Ireland to carry out experiments that inflict severe pain on...
Animal-testing reforms need to be debated
New regulations governing animal experimentation are due before the Dáil
Animal test to continue despite alternative
A new method of testing Botox has been licensed here but the controversial animal poison test it will replace may not be phased out
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