There is now a range of legislation that implicitly, or explicitly, requires
animal experimentation. It would be difficult to compile a comprehensive list
of such legislation but the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology compiled
two lists that contain the major pieces of UK and EU legislation that do so.
The EU legislation covers the following topics:
- Animal Trade
- Animal Nutrition Products
- Veterinary medicinal products
- Proprietary medicinal products
- Classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances / preparations
- Food additives
- Cosmetics
- Food contact materials
- Pesticides
The UK legislation is mainly secondary legislation implementing the EU directives
with the following major pieces of primary legislation from which some secondary
legislation has been spawned, e.g., Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
(COSHH) Regulations:
- Medicines Act 1968
- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- Food and Environment Protection Act 1985
- Consumer Protection Act 1987
- Food Safety Act 1990
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