Sentences with phrase «ban on animal research»
The European Commission has rejected the Stop Vivisection Initiative that sought to repeal a directive on the protection of animals, which would have a led to a European - wide ban on animal research.
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BERN — Swiss voters yesterday overwhelmingly rejected a nationwide referendum that would have banned research on transgenic animals as well as patents on genetically modified organisms.
Pressure to ban the practice has fallen on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) following a court ruling and the publication of research showing how a strain of bacteria jumped from humans to farm animals and back again, picking up antibiotic resistance on the way.
They would effectively ban animal testing and other contract work for foreign institutions and companies by prohibiting any research done on behalf of unregistered institutions.
The IOM committee left open the possibility that chimpanzees may be a necessary animal model to address future emerging or reemerging diseases, which raised the question of whether NIH will readdress its 17 - year - old ban on funding the breeding of chimpanzees for research.
The U.S. government has lifted a temporary ban on research attempting to develop an animal model for the MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) virus, a deadly coronavirus spreading from camels to people in the Middle East.
The agency will continue its ban on funding research that would include breeding of animals that could make human eggs or sperm.
In addition to the French legislation, cosmetics testing on animals was banned in Europe in 2013, Congress requested an investigation of a government - funded animal research lab in 2014 and the Ringling Brothers finally decided to retire all its circus elephants by 2018.
Lucas's views on animals in medical research (the kind which continues to save millions of people's lives, yet which Lucas wants to ban because she believes it to be «scientifically unsound») are interesting for much the same reasons.