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ITALY’S WAR OVER ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS PDF Stampa E-mail

Italy's top administrative court has suspended a European Research Council-funded experiment on monkeys, prompting researchers to warn that the country is becoming increasingly inhospitable to animal studies. The experiment, which uses macaques to better understand damage to the visual cortex, has faced sustained opposition from antivivisection groups, including threats received after the Ministry of Health released the research team's names to campaigners. One academic said Italy was at "a turning point", as restrictions on animal experiments have ramped up. The government is sensitive to the protesters – and the votes they represent, another said. (F: THE 06.02.20)