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The Food and Drug Administration has failed in its public health mission
DAVID GORTLER INTERVIEW When a former Yale University professor and former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Medical Officer appointed by the White House is dismissed by an incoming president, and all of his non-partisan, ongoing public health projects are abruptly terminated, alarm bells should start to ring. Dr David Gortler was forced to resign his… Read more
Interview with Dr Colette Goujon
The use of monkeys is still common today in the fields of fundamental research and neurology. We face the same age-old ethical dilemma : their « similarity » to humans supposedly makes them good models monkeys but also raises difficult ethical questions. But from a purely scientific perspective, are monkeys actually good models for the… Read more
Interview with Dr Andreas Ganz
Dr Andreas Ganz obtained his medical degree in Germany in 2002 and subsequently studied psychiatry, internal medicine and neurology. After obtaining a Masters degree in health administration in 2009, he went on to specialise in psychiatry and psychotherapy. Since 2017 he is chief physician of the Prinzregent-Luitpold-Klinik in Bad Reichenhall / Germany, with a focus… Read more
Interview with Dr Tamara Zietek
“The mouse intestine is different to the human one. If you want to study absorption of nutrients or drugs, then a mouse system is not appropriate” Dr. Tamara Zietek works as Scientific Officer for the German NGO Doctors Against Animal Experiments (Ärzte gegen Tierversuche e.V.) and lives near Cologne, Germany. She is an expert for… Read more
Setting the record straight on cosmetics testing
Andre Menache BSc(Hons) BVSc Dip ECAWBM (AWSEL) MRCVS Summary EU law requires as many as eleven toxicity tests for cosmetic products to be marketed, for which there are only four animal-free tests currently available. So our question is: are animals used in the other seven tests? Since animal testing for cosmetics is officially banned, cosmetics… Read more
Glyphosate : how much more can we swallow ?
Paris, 20th March 2017. The fate of the herbicide glyphosate is under discussion at the European Commission. The World Health Organisation (WHO) considers glyphosate to be “probably carcinogenic to humans”, while the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) does not agree. This controversy is largely due to different interpretations of results obtained from experiments on rats…. Read more
INTERVIEWS
Glyphosate
Why animals are not good models for the study of human disease
L'appel de Jane Goodall
People are not 70kg rats
In drug safety tests, using one species to represent another simply doesn’t work. We must replace animal tests with 21st-century science.
Open letter sent by Andre Menache to Cancer Research UK (CRUK)
Many medical charities who rely for their funding on the goodwill of the general public go on to use this money to support animal research in the mistaken belief that animal experiments will yield data that is relevant to human disease. In his letter to CRUK, Andre Menache presents scientific data to show that animal models are not able to predict human outcome.