Browse the documents below relating to animals used in research.
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- At left: Day 6 of an LD-50 (Lethal Dose 50%) acute toxicity poison test. The beagle is convulsing, has great difficulty in breathing and is unable to stand. Image at: www.oipa.org/photo/vivisection_dogs.htm
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- LD-50 test mouse.
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- The Draize eye irritancy test. UPI/ Bettman Archive photo.
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- Reproduced from Animal Liberation (2nd Edn) by Peter Singer (see chapter 7, paras 27-29, Graeme McEwen’s animal law ebook).
Attachments:
- National Consultation on Cosmetics and Animal Testing, Report on the Public Consultation Process, Australian Labor Cosmetics & Animal Testing Policy Consultation, 17 September 2014.
- Consumers misled by false “cruelty free” claims, Australian Competition & Consumer Law News, Issue 651, p 2, 20 May 2013.
- Answers to Estimates Questions on Notice re Animal Testing and Cosmetics, Senate Community Affairs Committee – Health and Ageing Portfolio, 13 and 15 February 2013.
- Testing on animals and the moral imperative, An Editorial in the Age which discusses the ethical questions that surround the practice of animal testing, 25 November 2012.
- Scientists kill half a million animals, Article in the Age, 2 December 2012.
- The monkey farm: primates being bred for experiments, Article in the Age, 25 November 2012.
- Statistics: Animal use in research & teaching, Australia, A compilation of the numbers and types of animals used for experimentation across Australia, based on most recent available numbers., 2009/10.
- Statistics of Animal Use in Research and Teaching, A report compiled by the Bureau of Animal Welfare on the use of animals for research and teaching in Victoria, Report Number 28.
- European Parliament newsletter, European ban on use of most great apes in experiments, 8 September 2010.
- Aust. Code of Practice for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes.
- NHMRC Policy on the care and use of non-human primates for scientific purposes.