NEWS ARCHIVE - February 2005

February 28 2005
EU Commission for limited animal tests in chemicals
Reuters
The use of animal testing to carry out safety checks on 30,000 commonly used chemicals is necessary but should be limited, the EU executive Commission said on Monday, refusing to consider a ban on experiments.

February 23 2005
UK Government to publish animal experiment licences
EducationGuardian.co.uk - UK
Details of UK licences granted for animal experiments will be available to the public for the first time under measures announced by the UK Government today. Home Office Minister Caroline Flint hailed the move as “ground-breaking” and predicted it would boost openness and understanding.

February 18 2005
Animal rights activists challenge laboratories in court
Legalbrief - Durban,South Africa
Richard Drabble QC, for the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, which is making an application for judicial review of the legality of lab practices, told the court that documents from Cambridge University contradict the public perception that animals were well cared for and protected under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986.

February 16 2005
Protests Against Experiments on Animals
OneWorld.net - London,England,UK
The Liberation of Animals association from Zagreb organised a protest rally yesterday, on the Ban Jelacic Square in Zagreb, to protest the exploitation of animals and their abuse for needs of testing and vivisection.

February 8 2005
PCRM Develops World's First Cruelty-Free Insulin Assay
PCRM News and Media Centre - Washington, USA
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has developed the world’s first cruelty-free insulin assay, a test used to measure insulin levels in individuals with diabetes. They have produced an in-vitro, or test-tube, procedure using a synthetic replacement for the fetal calf serum currently used as a culturing medium in millions of medical tests every year.

February 8 2005
Lab 'flouted laws on animal safety'
Cambridge News - UK
Secret documents from Cambridge University reveal that laws intended to protect laboratory animals are not being properly enforced, anti-vivisection lawyers told the High Court. Copies of the documents relating to experiments with monkeys were obtained from Cambridge University by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) during a 10-month undercover investigation.

February 8 2005
Lab monkeys 'scream with fear' in tests
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Secret documents describing how some monkeys can scream in misery, fear and anger during experiments were produced in the high court yesterday as evidence that the laws intended to protect laboratory animals are being flouted.

February 7 2005
Animal rights group's court bid
BBC News - UK
Anti-vivisection campaigners are seeking a High Court ruling that laws to protect laboratory animals are not being properly enforced.

February 7 2005
Animal-test laws a sham, say activists
Scotsman - Scotland,UK
Anti-Vivisection campaigners were today set to launch a High Court bid for a ruling that laws intended to protect laboratory animals from unnecessary suffering.

February 4 2005
Protesters take to the streets
Cherwell - Oxford,England,UK
Animal rights activists staged their biggest protest yet in Oxford on Saturday, as the Government and University raced to ensure that con-struction resumed at the South Parks Road laboratory.

February 3 2005
500 protest against Animal lab
Oxford Student - Oxford,UK
Around 500 protesters assembled on Broad Street on Saturday morning to protest against the recommencing of building work on research labs where they allege vivisection involving animals will take place.

February 2 2005
Moral obligation overshadows science
The Post Online - Athens,OH,USA
In the name of science, in the name of all that is best and brightest in man, are performed the darkest, most cruel, destructive and despicable deeds we can imagine. Vivisection makes a mockery of the very abilities that make humans special.

February 2 2005
Why animal research testing is unreliable
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
We want to save the lives both of animals in laboratories and of people who are ill. The abolition of vivisection offers this possibility.

February 2 2005
BOC halts supplies to animal test company
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
Tony Isaac, chief executive of gases group BOC, said yesterday that it had pulled out of supplying animal testing company Huntingdon Life Sciences because the security had become so expensive.

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