So far, only the Netherlands has developed a phase-out plan for animal experiments in which the reduction potential of animal experiments by the year 2025 is assessed. Animal experiments for regulatory safety tests of chemicals, food additives, pesticides as well as animal and human medicine products could be completed terminated until 2025 while maintaining the same level of safety, in case that the development of the missing complex non-animal test is stimulated. For basic research, the plan envisages a gradual reduction of animal testing. Unfortunately, no EU Member State has yet supported the Dutch initiative officially. On the contrary, the timetable has been criticised as unrealistic. Only the government of the Brussels-Capital Region took action and presented a reduction plan in line with the Dutch report.

On the basis of the exit plan from The Hague, the biologist Dr Christiane Hohensee and the veterinarian Dr Christiane Baumgartl-Simons from the Federal Association of People for Animal Rights germany (PARG) present a concept in the book based on five pillars. According to this concept, the degradation plan must primarily specify individual measures for the promotion and distribution of new, animal-free, human-specific methods as well as a shortening of the processes for inspection and approval procedures for such replacement methods. A stringent implementation also requires a responsible management and a success control in order to follow, among other things, the increase of animal-free procedures. Furthermore, certain animal experiments must be banned and practical instructions must be drawn up so that the indispensability and ethical justifiability of an animal experiment required by the Animal Welfare Act can be determined in accordance with scientific rules.

Source and further information:
https://www.tierrechte.de/2019/03/28/28-maerz-2019-buchveroeffentlichung-paradigmenwechsel-zum-ausstieg-aus-dem-tierversuch/

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