Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 37699
Animal Experiments: Chemicals
Tabled: 12 March 2025
Answered: 23 April 2025
Question
Ruth Jones
Labour — Newport West and Islwyn
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has had discussions with the European Chemicals Agency to ensure that animal tests are not duplicated in the EU when the test has already been approved to fulfil
Answer
Emma HardyAnimal 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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