Traduction de «épreuve d'écouvillonnage sur animaux vivants » (Français → Anglais) :

Live Animal Swab Test [ LAST | LAST test ]

7. Considers that, to obtain a licence to perform experiments on animals, the applicant must be able clearly to substantiate and justify the purpose of the experiment in terms of the criterion that the experiments will be of benefit to animals or humans. In addition, a licence may be issued only where the applicant can show that the desired outcome can only be achieved by using live animals and that there are no alternative testing methods. Before a licence is issued, an ethical and animal-welfare assessment must be carried setting limits to the level of stress to which the animals may be subjected. Even if it can be shown that certain e ...[+++]xperiments may be of benefit to animals or humans, they should not be authorised if the stress on the animals used in the experiment exceeds the maximum level;

The specific call launched at the initiative of Franz FISCHLER, the Commissioner responsible for agriculture and rural developement, and Edith CRESSON, the Commissioner responsible for research, is based on the priorities identified by the Weissmann report and focuses on the following research areas: 1- Development of specific, sensitive, practical and rapid diagnostic tests for TSE infectivity or for the detection of disease specific markers for use in live animals in the pre-clinical and/or clinical phase of disease.

If the animals to be tested in the previous two subparagraphs are under 30 months old and have been vaccinated with live strain 19 vaccine they may be considered to be negative if they give a serum agglutination test result greater than 30 IU but less than 80 IU of agglutination per millilitre provided that, on the complement fixation test, they give a result less than 30 EEC units in the case of females vaccinated less than 12 months previously or less than 20 EEC units in all other cases.

An important effort is devoted to the development of specific, sensitive and rapid diagnostic tests in live animals in the pre-clinical phase of the disease as well as in tissues of slaughtered animals.