Animal Friends Croatia said in the press release that the number of dogs used in experiments was unfortunately increasing, which is confirmed by the latest report from the European Commission, according to which over 10.5 million animals were used in experiments in European laboratories in 2018, including nearly 26,000 in Croatia.
The association recalled that on 21 July 2005, 32 scared and traumatised beagles, on which bone-breaking experiments had been conducted illegally at Zagreb’s Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, had been released.
Despite the reports filed, no one responsible for the procurement and conducting of experiments has been prosecuted to date, the association warned.
It believes, however, that there has been a shift because last week’s report from the European Commission states that Croatia did not use dogs in experiments in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Unfortunately, Croatia still used a huge number of mostly mice, followed by rats, domestic poultry, rabbits, zebrafish, sheep, pigs, horses, donkeys and their hybrids, as well as guinea pigs, the association warned.
According to data, over 1,200 animals have never recovered from the experiments.
Animal Friends Croatia stressed that the European Commission, in order to move towards the ultimate goal of completely replacing animals and in response to requests for greater transparency, had launched the first statistical database, ALURES, which provides free access to information on using animals for scientific purposes in the EU. The data are collected by member states and sent to the Commission every year.
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