How Many Animals Survive From Animal Testing Each Year

How many animals are used in experiments around the world?

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If someone was to ask you how many animals are used in laboratory experiments around the earth each year what would your answer be? One meg? Ten million? Fifty million?

Putting an accurate figure on this question is extremely difficult. The well-nigh reliable guess, based on data from 2005, suggests 115.3 million animals are used in experiments annually (although the authors concluded this "is all the same probable to exist an underestimate". It will too exclude virtually all invertebrates).

And so, why don't we know how many animals are used? Statistics on brute testing are not available for all countries that use animals. Sometimes this is considering that country has no law on animal experimentation or simply doesn't collect this information.

Japan, for instance, has a self-regulation system and surveys on the numbers of animals used do not have to be conducted. In Canada, but labs that receive research funding from the national funding agencies take to submit data.

In countries where statistics do exist they usually exclude many animals. Examples include: animals killed to supply tissues (an additional 21% of animals on top of published figures); genetically-modified animals used only to maintain breeding colonies (an additional 34%); animals bred for utilise in labs merely killed as 'surplus to requirements' (50% of mice and rats according to industry figures); some young animals in early stages of development (foetal and embryonic forms); and certain invertebrate species.

A clear example of the manner in which data is non uniformly presented is the Britain. Equally an Eu Fellow member State it has to submit its animal testing data for inclusion in an EU-wide statistical report. However, the Eu excludes numbers of genetically-modified animals used solely to maintain breeding colonies, whereas the UK includes them in its own report. So, the EU report states that the U.k. used only over two million animals in 2011, notwithstanding the Britain's own national report for the same year put the figure at 3.79 million – one.7 million more than animals.

The USA, thought to exist the world's largest user of animals in labs, excludes 95% of animals from protection and data collection as the police force does not cover mice, rats, birds, amphibians or reptiles. In 2012, the USA reported 1.one one thousand thousand animals beingness used in experiments but the true number is estimated to be over 22 million.

Some countries include more species or types of experiment under animal testing law. Norway, for example, includes dearest bees and in the Czech republic bird ringing (the capture of wild birds and placement of an identifying ring on one leg for conservation purposes earlier the bird is release unharmed) is classed as an experiment and it is included in statistics of animal testing.

Then, as we encounter, even when in that location are bachelor statistics they're not always reliable or easy to compare between i country and some other.

Is it important to know the extent of animate being testing? Nosotros think so. For proper and transparent discussion to accept place most the scientific and ethical problems surrounding animal experiments there needs to be an understanding of the level and types of experimentation, the species used and the harm washed to individual animals. Simply when nosotros take this information can the impacts of regulation and the uptake of non-animal testing methods be adequately monitored.

The Lush Prize works to end animal testing by funding science, campaigns and lobbying. We recognise the need for a joined-up arroyo across all these sectors and reliable data plays a critical part in this.

The information in this web log is from a Lush Prize study into animal testing globally. To read the total report (PDF) click here.

If you know an organisation or individual who you think deserves to win the Lush Prize, you tin can nominate them on our website.

Source: https://lushprize.org/many-animals-used-experiments-around-world/

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