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<p>The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 requires project licence holders to
ensure that their programme of work does not involve any regulated procedures for
which there is a scientifically satisfactory alternative method or testing strategy
that does not entail the use of a protected animal.</p><p><br>The government is committed
to the replacement, reduction, and refinement of the use of animals in research -
the ‘3Rs’. Implementing the 3Rs requires that, in every research proposal, animals
are replaced with non-animal alternatives wherever possible; that the number of animals
is reduced to the minimum needed to achieve the results sought; and that, for those
animals which must be used, procedures are refined as much as possible to minimise
their suffering.</p>
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