The Animals Act of 1986, for example, insists that no animal experiments be conducted if there is a realistic alternative. Testing on animals now requires three Home Office licences - for the ...

in which extensive but ill-informed animal testing led to researchers concluding the drug was safe – only for it to cause severe birth defects in tens of thousands of children across the world.

The government has allowed animal testing for some makeup ingredients to start again, despite a 25 year ban. A ban against animal testing for makeup and its ingredients was brought in in 1998 and ...

Mice, fish, cats, dogs, horses, rabbits, monkeys - they're all used in animal testing across the world. Until recently, the US Department of Agriculture used cats to research toxoplasmosis - a ...