ABSTRACT
In May 2004, the British government announced that it was establishing
a new national centre which would fund work directed towards the aim
of replacing, refining and reducing the use of animals in scientific
research. Lord Sainsbury, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
for Science and Innovation, marked the announcement by insisting
that whatever the ultimate aim of the centre, it was clear that animal
testing was currently necessary for proper scientific research. In this, he
was echoing a statement which he had made some months earlier,
reaffirming the commitment of the British government to animal
research undertaken within existing regulatory frameworks.
