Lab mouse - Lab mouse at UCL (Credit: David Bishop, UCL)
Lab mouse - Lab mouse at UCL (Credit: David Bishop, UCL) UCL is releasing its animal research statistics today in collaboration with Understanding Animal Research - a non-profit that promotes open communications about animal research. UCL and nine other institutions together conducted nearly half of all animal procedures - those used in medical, veterinary, and scientific research - in the UK in 2021. The statistics are freely available on UCL's animal research website as part of our joint commitments to transparency and openness around the use of animals in research. This list coincides with the publication of the Home Office's report on the statistics of scientific procedures on living animals in Great Britain in 2021. These ten organisations carried out 1,496,006 procedures, 49% or nearly half of the 3,056,243 procedures carried out on animals for scientific research in Great Britain in 2021. Of these 1,496,006 procedures, more than 99% were carried out on mice, fish and rats and 83% were classified as causing a similar level of pain, or less, as an injection. The ten organisations are listed below alongside the total number of procedures carried out in 2021.
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