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The Search for Alternatives: The Canadian Initiative

The Search for Alternatives: The Canadian Initiative AROUND THE WORLD H.C. Rowsell & A.A. McWilliam Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC), 151 Slater, Ottawa, Ontario KIP 5H3, Canada Introduction When the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) was established in 1968, use of the term "alternatives" produced considerable debate between the scientific and animal welfare communities. The former considered the term incorrect and felt it should indicate the connotation that animals were being replaced, or that techniques such as tissue culture were adjuncts to research. There is no doubt that the science and the development of what some term "replacement techniques" has advanced significantly in the last quarter century, with phenomenal progress in the past few years, as the need for the development of scientific reproducibility, and thus scientific credibility, became recognised as essential for their adoption. The term "alternatives" should no longer be a debatable issue, for it is so well established that, although there may still be those dissidents who consider it inappropriate, there is sufficient general usage of the term to give it credibility. We all know precisely what we are talking about, and that, of course, is the fulfilment of the important "three Rs" principle of reduction, replacement and refinement, enunciated by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Alternatives to Laboratory Animals SAGE

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SAGE
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© 1985 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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10.1177/026119298501300308
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AROUND THE WORLD H.C. Rowsell & A.A. McWilliam Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC), 151 Slater, Ottawa, Ontario KIP 5H3, Canada Introduction When the Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC) was established in 1968, use of the term "alternatives" produced considerable debate between the scientific and animal welfare communities. The former considered the term incorrect and felt it should indicate the connotation that animals were being replaced, or that techniques such as tissue culture were adjuncts to research. There is no doubt that the science and the development of what some term "replacement techniques" has advanced significantly in the last quarter century, with phenomenal progress in the past few years, as the need for the development of scientific reproducibility, and thus scientific credibility, became recognised as essential for their adoption. The term "alternatives" should no longer be a debatable issue, for it is so well established that, although there may still be those dissidents who consider it inappropriate, there is sufficient general usage of the term to give it credibility. We all know precisely what we are talking about, and that, of course, is the fulfilment of the important "three Rs" principle of reduction, replacement and refinement, enunciated by

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Alternatives to Laboratory Animals – SAGE

Published: Mar 1, 1985

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