EU backs ongoing use of primates in research, but aims for reduction
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
From a scientific point of view, the use of non-human primates (NHPs), at the present time, is essential for scientific progress in a number of important areas of disease biology research and in safety testing. This is the main conclusion of a recent opinion handed down by the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Health and the Environment ( SCHER)1.