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Til umiddelbar udsendelse: 05/08/10 – af: Deutscher Tierschutzbund

Ersatz für grausamen Draize-Test an Kaninchen international anerkannt

Nach über einem Jahrzehnt wissenschaftlicher Forschung und Lobbyarbeit von Tierschutzorganisationen hat die Organisation für Wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD) in Paris am 22. Juli diesen Jahres eine neue tierversuchsfreie Richtlinie zur Prüfung auf Hautreizung anerkannt. Diese steht nun zur sofortigen Anwendung für Firmen und Behörden weltweit bereit. Der Deutsche Tierschutzbund begrüßt diesen Schritt.

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Til umiddelbar udsendelse: 13/07/10 – af: Doctors Against Animal Experiments

Tiere leiden für ein zweifelhaftes Schönheitsideal

Jährlich 600.000 Botox-Opfer

Die bundesweite Vereinigung Ärzte gegen Tierversuche hat in der aktuellen Ausgabe des Wissenschaftsjournals Altex eine Berechnung der Anzahl der Tiere vorgelegt, die durch die Testung von Botox-Produkten sterben. Demnach müssen weltweit mehr als 600.000 Mäuse einen „qualvollen Erstickungstod“ erleiden. Da sogenannte Alternativmethoden vorhanden sind, sieht der Verein einen Verstoß gegen geltendes Tierschutzrecht und fordert ein Moratorium für die kosmetische Anwendung bis die tierversuchsfreien Methoden anerkannt sind.

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Til umiddelbar udsendelse: 06/07/10 – af: ECEAE

EU Council accused of issuing misleading public statement on animal testing

The European Coalition to End Animal Experiments (ECEAE), a coalition of animal protection groups across Europe, has accused the EU Council of Ministers of issuing a highly misleading press statement about the changes to the animal experiments directive (Directive 86/609). The ECEAE has made a formal complaint of maladminstration to the European Ombudsman against the Council.

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Til umiddelbar udsendelse: 04/06/10 – af: Doctors Against Animal Experiments

Ministerrat stimmt EU-Tierversuchsrichtlinie zu: Verrat an den Tieren

Die bundesweite Vereinigung Ärzte gegen Tierversuche zeigt sich bestürzt darüber, dass der Rat der Europäischen Union heute dem vorliegenden Entwurf einer Tierversuchsrichtlinie trotz gravierender tierschutzrechtlicher Mängel zugestimmt hat. Da den Ländern nicht erlaubt ist, national strengere Maßstäbe zu erlassen, bleibt der Tierschutz auf niedrigem Niveau zementiert, fürchtet der Ärzteverein.

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Til umiddelbar udsendelse: 03/06/10 – af: ECEAE

Leading animal protection groups condemn provisional agreement on new European animal experiments law

The ECEAE (European Coalition to End Animal Experiments) has today strongly condemned an agreement reached by the 27 EU member states on what a new animal experiments law should look like.

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Til umiddelbar udsendelse: 02/06/10 – af: ECEAE

European Agency Promotes Non-Animal Tests in Massive Chemicals Programme

London - In a move welcomed by international animal protection organisations, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has today published new guidance specifically designed to help chemical manufacturers avoid animal testing while meeting the requirements of the European Union’s new chemicals testing programme, known as REACH. Introduced in 2007, the REACH programme (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals) requires chemical companies to provide safety data on tens of thousands of chemicals already in use in the EU. Experts estimate that anywhere between 7.5 and 50m animals could be used in new tests as a result. The first of several deadlines for submission of test data is in December this year.

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Til umiddelbar udsendelse: 01/06/10 – af: Doctors Against Animal Experiments

Drei Jahre REACH

Millionen Tieropfer für bevorstehende Chemikalientests

1 June 2007, the EU chemicals regulation REACH came into force. Thousands of chemicals should be tested in the years to their toxicity - largely in animal studies. Estimates suggest up to 54 million animals that are to let the will of the EU in painful toxicity tests their lives. These are animals - apart from the ethical issues - completely inappropriate to assess the risks of substances for humans and the environment, the nationwide association is convinced doctors against animal testing.

How many chemicals for REACH are to be tested, is not yet known. In the EU Chemicals Agency ECHA in Helsinki 150 000 substances have been pre-registered. Originally it was out of 30,000 agents. As is to be submitted for each chemical but only a file must first be determined which substances have been pre-registered by several manufacturers.

Depending on production volume, a number of test data required for REACH - the higher the amount, the more data. They range from acute toxicity tests in which rats or mice, the substances are introduced into the stomach through the skin tests on rabbits and guinea pigs to Mehrgenerationentests die in which a substance for thousands of rats. Estimates range from eight to 54 million vertebrate animals that are under REACH their lives. For Dr. med vet. Corina Gericke, associate researcher for doctors against animal testing is a scandal: "The chemicals are all in use for decades. All required data are already available and only have to be collected. "

The animal tests, according to Medical Association also for assessing the hazards of chemicals extremely unreliable. "What are harmless for a rat, may be toxic to humans and vice versa," said veterinarian Gericke. The EU has proved to REACH a disservice. "Instead of a modern, sophisticated testing strategies, eg to share with human cell cultures and computer simulations, is held in a completely outdated paradigm, in which a catalog is processed from cruel and pointless animal tests, "says Gericke further.

For substances that are known to be particularly dangerous, or are produced in quantities of more than 100 tons per year, animal testing may be performed by the ECHA only after approval. ECHA will publish the names of the chemicals have been submitted for the applications on its website. 45 days, you can comment from third parties, a demand which has found due to pressure from animal welfare and animal associations opponent input into REACH. Professionals can thus find out whether the requested data are already available or how they can be produced without animal testing. "We are against animal testing doctors do their utmost to prevent as many animal experiments, when we submit our experts informed view on the animal's filings with the ECHA. To date, 15 applications have been animal studies published by the ECHA. In the coming months and years, hundreds are expected.

For more information:
ECHA website: http://echa.europa.eu/consultations/test_proposals/test_prop_cons_en.asp

The REACH chance - 45 days http://www.aerzte-gegen-tierversuche.de/infos/eu/476-die-reach-chance-45-tage-um-tiere-zu-retten to save animals

REACH - http://www.aerzte-gegen-tierversuche.de/infos/eu/159-reach-grausame-und-sinnlose-chemikalien-tierversuche cruel and pointless tests chemicals

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Doctors against animal testing e.V., Landsbergerstr. 103, 80339 Munich, Tel: 089-3599349, Fax 089-35652127 info@aerzte-gegen-tierversuche.de, www.aerzte-against-tierversuche.de

The association of doctors against animal testing has existed since 1979 and is an amalgamation of several hundred doctors, veterinarians and scientists, the animal experiments for ethical and scientific reasons to reject. The association is committed to a modern, humane research and science without animal experiments, which are people-oriented and the causes and prevention of diseases in the foreground.

Til umiddelbar udsendelse: 11/05/10 – af: 86/609

European ministers accused of misleading the public over animal experiments law

The ECEAE (European Coalition to End Animal Experiments), a coalition of animal protection groups across the EU, has today accused European ministers of seriously misleading the public over a new law about animal experiments. The current law, Directive 86/609, is being revised.

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