Disappointment over UK animal tests plan

FRAME calls for more investment in the search for non-animal methods

FRAME (Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments) is disappointed that no targets have been set in the Government’s plan to cut the number of animals used in UK laboratories. The figures continue to rise every year in spite of early pledges by the Coalition to promote reduction.

The current promise to encourage scientists to use alternatives is a hollow one. The law already states that alternatives must be used where they are available.

FRAME would like to see an expansion of the current programme and more investment into the search for alternatives so that more non-animal methods become available to be used in bio-medical research.

FRAME takes a strictly scientific approach to the subject of laboratory animals. We are against their use because, in the majority of cases, the results obtained from them do not accurately predict anything about human reactions to drugs or any other substances.

For more than 40 years FRAME has been at the centre of campaigns to reduce, refine and ultimately replace the use of animals in laboratories.

FRAME’s ultimate aim is the elimination of the need to use laboratory animals in any kind of scientific or medical procedures.