Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 99027

Animal Experiments

Tabled: 10 December 2025
Answered: 18 December 2025

Question

Seamus Logan

Scottish National PartyAberdeenshire North and Moray East

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the answer of 1 December 2025 to Question 92670, whether a scientifically satisfactory method or testing strategy requires validation.

Answer

Kanishka Narayan
Where a novel method is devised, it is expected to undergo evaluation in studies that describe its performance in its capacity to predict outcomes of testing of chemicals of a known profile. Such studies will be a forerunner to formal validation of the me...

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