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Ban on the Use of Great Apes as Laboratory Animals in the UK

Ban on the Use of Great Apes as Laboratory Animals in the UK ATLA 40, 69–71, 2012 69 Editorial Ban on the Use of Great Apes as Laboratory Animals in the UK On 25 March 2008, in reply to a parliamentary Animals in Medical Experimentation (APPRG), for question about the use of great apes, the Home which FRAME provides the Secretariat. The Office Minister, Meg Hillier MP, referred to the Chairman of the Group, Nic Dakin MP, then wrote following statement made in 1997 by the then to the Home Office Minister, Lynne Featherstone Home Secretary, Jack Straw MP: MP, to suggest that the UK’s current position against the use of great apes would be weakened, “Great Apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, pygmy if the Government did not take advantage of gorillas and orang-utans) have never been another article in the Directive (Article 2), which used under the [Animals (Scientific permits the Member States to maintain stricter Procedures)] 1986 Act as laboratory animals. measures, by putting a ban on the face of the But this has not previously been banned. revised UK legislation. At about the same time, the The Government will not allow their use in British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection the future. This is a matter of morality. The (BUAV) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Alternatives to Laboratory Animals SAGE

Ban on the Use of Great Apes as Laboratory Animals in the UK

Balls, Michael
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals , Volume 40 (2): 3 – May 1, 2012
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© 2012 Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
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ATLA 40, 69–71, 2012 69 Editorial Ban on the Use of Great Apes as Laboratory Animals in the UK On 25 March 2008, in reply to a parliamentary Animals in Medical Experimentation (APPRG), for question about the use of great apes, the Home which FRAME provides the Secretariat. The Office Minister, Meg Hillier MP, referred to the Chairman of the Group, Nic Dakin MP, then wrote following statement made in 1997 by the then to the Home Office Minister, Lynne Featherstone Home Secretary, Jack Straw MP: MP, to suggest that the UK’s current position against the use of great apes would be weakened, “Great Apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, pygmy if the Government did not take advantage of gorillas and orang-utans) have never been another article in the Directive (Article 2), which used under the [Animals (Scientific permits the Member States to maintain stricter Procedures)] 1986 Act as laboratory animals. measures, by putting a ban on the face of the But this has not previously been banned. revised UK legislation. At about the same time, the The Government will not allow their use in British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection the future. This is a matter of morality. The (BUAV)

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Published: May 1, 2012

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