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: https://3rs.ccac.ca
- 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
- 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
- Finland: Fincopa
- France: Francopa
- Germany: SET
- Italy: IPAM
- Norway: Norecopa
- Romania: ROCAM
- Spain: REMA
- Swizerland: 3RCC
European Animal Research Association EARA
European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing EUSAAT
Finnish Laboratory Science Association FinLAS
Foundations
Swizerland: 3R research foundation in Switzerland
Virtual Centre for Alternative and Complementary Methods to Animal Testing VZET
Guidelines:
ICH guidelines for pharmaceutical testing
OECD Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) guidelines
OECD guidelines for chemical safety testing
Databases:
The Animal-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 ALLTTOX
EU projects' databases
Laws and regulations:
- Act on the Protection of Animals Used for Scientific or Educational Purposes (497/2013)
- Chemicals Act (REACH-related)
- The Council on the Protection of Animals Used for Scientific or Educational Purposes (TOKES)
- 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
- Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 1998 concerning the placing of biocidal products on the market
- Elintarvikelaki (“Act on foodstuffs”)
- Gene Technology Act (377/1995)
- Government Decree on Gene Technology (928/2004)
- Government Decree on the Protection of Animals Used for Scientific or Educational Purposes (564/2013)
- Medicines Act
- Project Authorisation Board (former Animal Experiment Board (ELLA)
- TOKES definition of animal welfare criteria (approved on 16 September 2015)
- TOKES members 1/11/2018–31/10/2023
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
caat.jhsph.edu/publications/animal_alternatives - 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