So far many MEPs in the European Parliament have been lobbied vigorously by animal rights groups in their blind opposition to animal research. Sadly, other views have not been heard, despite the enormous benefits to human health which can derive from such research.
It is heartening to see that the European Patients Forum (EPF) has now published a statement on animal testing, approved by the vast majority of its member organisations. EPF will be distributing this statement widely during forthcoming debates in the EU Institutions relating to the revision of the European Directive on Animal Experimentation 86/609.
