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Replacing Animal Experimentation: On Creating the Puzzles to be Solved

Replacing Animal Experimentation: On Creating the Puzzles to be Solved ATLA 39, 1–2, 2011 1 Editorial Replacing Animal Experimentation: On Creating the Puzzles to be Solved Mankind always sets itself only such problems use on a population scale. The problem with the as it can solve; looking at the matter more evaluation of chemical toxicity is that the EU closely, it will always be found that the task REACH system has revealed that many more itself arises only when the material conditions chemicals than had been expected, lack the infor- for its solution already exist or are at least in mation needed for what is considered to be an the process of formation. (Karl Marx, 1859) acceptable risk assessment. Also, it is having to be recognised, albeit very reluctantly in some quar- At various times in my life, as a child and with my ters, that two of the main types of animal test, own children, I have had the pleasure of tackling which are very costly and which can cause great new jigsaw puzzles. The difficult ones were those suffering to the animals used, namely, reproduc- with lots of sky or sea or green grass or trees, and the tive toxicity tests and the rodent bioassay for easier http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Alternatives to Laboratory Animals SAGE

Replacing Animal Experimentation: On Creating the Puzzles to be Solved

Balls, Michael
Alternatives to Laboratory Animals , Volume 39 (1): 2 – Mar 1, 2011
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© 2011 Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
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0261-1929
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2632-3559
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10.1177/026119291103900115
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ATLA 39, 1–2, 2011 1 Editorial Replacing Animal Experimentation: On Creating the Puzzles to be Solved Mankind always sets itself only such problems use on a population scale. The problem with the as it can solve; looking at the matter more evaluation of chemical toxicity is that the EU closely, it will always be found that the task REACH system has revealed that many more itself arises only when the material conditions chemicals than had been expected, lack the infor- for its solution already exist or are at least in mation needed for what is considered to be an the process of formation. (Karl Marx, 1859) acceptable risk assessment. Also, it is having to be recognised, albeit very reluctantly in some quar- At various times in my life, as a child and with my ters, that two of the main types of animal test, own children, I have had the pleasure of tackling which are very costly and which can cause great new jigsaw puzzles. The difficult ones were those suffering to the animals used, namely, reproduc- with lots of sky or sea or green grass or trees, and the tive toxicity tests and the rodent bioassay for easier

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Published: Mar 1, 2011

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