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news.The European Commission plans to publish the draft proposals for speeding the development of alternatives to the use of animals in medical experiments in April, according to Scripnews.
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The environment commissioner Stavros Dimas said that the main objective was to reduce the need for animal tests and promote alternative methods. The commission also maintained that it wanted to improve the situation of animals, which still had to be used in tests, particularly breeding, housing and the experiments themselves by introducing compulsory ethical evaluation of test projects. The Commission hoped to curtail the animal usage by restricting animal tests to vital research programs on severe global diseases.