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Animal Experiments

Volume 168: debated on Friday 9 March 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will list, for each of the last 10 years, how many animals were used to test cosmetics and toiletries, the types of animals used and how many died during the course of the test.

Information on the number of experiments or procedures involving each type of animal is published in table 2 (cosmetics and toiletries) of the annual "Statistics of Experiments on Living Animals, Great Britain" for the years 1979–86 inclusive (Cmnd. 8069, 8301, 8657, 8986, 9311, 9574, 9839, and Cm. 187) and table 3 of "Statistics of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain" for the years 1987–88 inclusive (Cm. 515 and 743). Copies of all these publications are in the Library.