On 17 July 2022 the European Commission published a summary report on the statistics on the use of animals for scientific purposes in the Member States of the European Union and Norway in 2019.
The aim of the document is to collect Member States’ 2019 statistical data regarding the numbers of animals used for purposes of research, testing, routine production and education (including training). Each Member State was also requested to provide a narrative for their data, including, inter alia, information on its efforts to promote the principle of Replacement, Reduction and Refinement (“3R principle”)
In this regard, it should be noted that Latvia was the only country that explicitly mentioned in silico methods among the testing processes applied to detect most effective samples before animal testing and reduce the total amount of animals in procedures.
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