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Article: Animal rights: Melvyn Whyte, managing director. Whyte Group, London, and BCDTA REACH task force chairman, points to the European Commission for animal testing responsibility.(Comment)(British Chemical Distributors and Traders Association registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals)(qualitative structure activity relationships)
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- Chemistry and Industry
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- June 21, 2004
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DEMONSTRATIONS in Brussels by animal rights protesters targeted the European chemicals industry's association Cefic rather than the EU Commission.
But these protestors are delivering the wrong message to the wrong audience. The responsibility for a potentially massive increase in animal testing lies with the European Commission or, more precisely, its proposed REACH (registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals) system--the centrepiece of its new chemicals strategy.
The REACH proposals have set out to protect humanity and the environment from the misuse of chemicals. However, the REACH system would require some 12m animals be sacrificed to ...