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The new EU Directive and the equivalent legislation in the EU Member States will be of little value, unless they can bring the production and use of genetically-altered animals under control and lead to a progressive and sustained reduction in laboratory animal use

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The Increasing Use of Genetically-altered Animals Threatens the Credibility of Directive 2010/63/EU

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