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In recent years animal welfare groups have increasingly focussed attention on animal experimentation. There had been an upsurge in animal tests following the setting up in most countries of licensing bodies (post-thalidomide) and following the increase in consumer protection bodies wanting safety above all. Animals are used by drug companies, government and private research institutes and academic institutions for both the safety testing of new products and the establishing of new, fundamental, scientific facts. The increased use of animals led to an intensification in the search for ‘alternatives’, the reasons for the search being economic, scientific and humane, in that order. The funding of such studies is by government, charities in the animal welfare field, the pharmaceutical industry and the universities.
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Dawson, M. (1983). Uses and limitations of tissue culture in drug testing. In: Turner, P. (eds) Animals in Scientific Research: An Effective Substitute for Man?. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06439-7_9
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