Unit Animal Welfare and Knowledge Transfer

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Legal basis

With the entry into force of the amendment to the Animal Protection Act on 12 July 2013 and the Regulation on the protection of animals used for experiments or other scientific purposes on 13 August 2013, a generally understandable (or "non-technical") project summary for animal experiments (NTP) must be attached to every application for approval of an animal experiment project. The publication of the so-called NTP is intended to ensure that the public can inform itself about all approved animal experiments in Germany. Each NTP is published in Germany in the online database AnimalTestInfo.

In addition, BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment regularly evaluates these NTPs systematically in order to identify those fields of research for which a constant number of animal experiments are approved. In these areas, the development of alternative methods as well as measures to reduce the number of animals and improve the welfare of the laboratory animals is particularly useful, as many animals would benefit from this.

Contact

PDshort foroutside lecturer Dr. Bettina Bert Head Unit - Animal Welfare and Knowledge Transfer Address: Diedersdorfer Weg 1
12277 Berlin
Germany
Postal address: German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfRshort forGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment)
Max-Dohrn-Str. 8-10
10589 Berlin
Germany
Telephone: +49-30-18412-29400 +49-30-18412-29400 Fax: +49-30-18412-29099 E-mail: 94@bfr.bund.de