Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 37696

Animal Experiments: Chemicals

Tabled: 12 March 2025
Answered: 23 April 2025
Named Day

Question

Ruth Jones

LabourNewport West and Islwyn

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the transparency of the UK REACH framework in relation to the generation of new data.

Answer

Emma Hardy
Animal testing of chemical substances is permitted under UK REACH only as a measure of last resort; this principle is reinforced by the Environment Act 2021. The last resort principle underpins the REACH testing proposal procedure. This procedure already ...

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