Resources
EU calls
Funding Programmes and Open Calls
3R centres and organisations:
European Commission
- European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA)
- European Union Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EURL ECVAM)
National centres
- Austria: RepRefRed Society
- Belgium: IC-3Rs
- The Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing in Europe (CAAT-Europe)
- Canada: CCAC
- Czech Republic: Czech3Rs Center
- Denmark: Danish 3R-Center
- Germany: Zebet
- Germany: BB3R
- Germany: TARC force 3R
- Italy: Centro 3R
- Netherlands: 3Rs Centre ULS
- Switzerland: 3RCC
- Slovakia: SNP 3Rs
- Spain: CMCiB
- France: FC3R
- Sweden: Swedish 3R Center
- UK: The NC3Rs
- USA: Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
Associations
European Consensus Platform for Alternatives (ecopa), is an umbrella organisation for national associations), ecopa.eu
European Animal Research Association EARA
European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing EUSAAT
Finnish Laboratory Science Association FinLAS
Guidelines:
ICH guidelines for pharmaceutical testing
OECD Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) guidelines
OECD guidelines for chemical safety testing
Databases:
The Anmal-Free Safety Assessment EU Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing EURL ECVAMUnited States Environmental Protection Agency EPANational Center for Biotechnology Information NCBINational Toxicology Program NTP
Intramural Research Program IPR Guidelines Non-animal Methods of Toxicity Testing
EU projects' databases
Laws and regulations:
- Act on the Protection of Animals Used for Scientific or Educational Purposes (497/2013)
- Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 22 September 2010 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes
- Gene Technology Act (377/1995)
- Government Decree on Gene Technology (928/2004)
Publications and abstracts:
- Michael Balls, Robert Combes, and Andrew Worth (2019). The History of Alternative Test Methods in Toxicology. Academic Press.
- Smith, AJ, Clutton, RE, Lilley, E, Hansen KEAa, Brattelid, T. (2018) PREPARE Guidelines for animal testing: norecopa.no/prepare
- Prescott MJ, Lidster K (2017). Improving quality of science through better animal welfare: the NC3Rs strategy. Lab Animal 46 (4): 152–156. DOI: 10.1038/laban.1217.
www.elaintieto.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Animal-Welfare-Report.pdf - Michael Balls (2009). The Three Rs and the Humanity Criterion, an Abridged version of The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique by W.M.S. Russel and R.L. Burch. FRAME, Nottingham, UK.
- Anon. (2000). The three Rs Declaration of Bologna. ATLA 28, 1–5.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_Process
- Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., (1994) Animals and Alternatives in Testing: History, Science, and Ethics
- W.M.S. Russel and R.L. Burch (1959). The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique. Methuen, London, UK. altweb.jhsph.edu/pubs/books/humane_exp/het-toc