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Experimental Medicine Unit Charter for the ethics of animal testing
Charter for the ethics of animal testing
ARTICLE 1: of the necessity of animal testing
The needs of biological, medical, or veterinary research, and the current limits of alternative methods, make it essential to resort to animal experimentation to advance knowledge, improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and in a more general preserve health.
ARTICLE 2: sensitivity and suffering in animals
Animals are sensible beings with cognitive and emotional capacities. They are able to suffer. The experimenter has a duty to ensure that their health and well-being are not unnecessarily threatened. Preventing unnecessary suffering will be his first concern.
ARTICLE 3: qualification of the experimenter
Scientific and technical knowledge is constantly increasing. The experimenter must take care to maintain and extend his own skills and those of his collaborators. It must be able to guarantee the implementation of the techniques best suited to the achievement of its scientific objectives while respecting the physiological and behavioral needs of the animal species used.
ARTICLE 4: responsibility of the experimenter
Experimenting with animals is an act of personal responsibility. The experimenter undertakes to comply in all respects with the moral requirements with regard to the animals which he uses for scientific purposes. It is therefore up to him to make every effort to establish the ethics of his approach, in particular as to the legitimacy of the subject of the research and the relevance of the plans methods to conduct it, and to ensure that a probability reasonable that his studies lead to the acquisition of new knowledge.
ARTICLE 5: the usefulness of ethical deliberation
The experimenter cannot be the sole judge of the ethical legitimacy of his own work when it calls into question his relationships with living beings. The scientific community as a whole also feels the need to enrich its reflection on what is tolerable and what is not, thus calling for the creation of specific ethics committees.
ARTICLE 6: the role of ethics committees in animal experimentation
These committees assess the compatibility between the proposed experimental protocols and the ethical principles, in order to help the experimenter in his approach when recourse to animals is required. Their purpose is to constitute an additional guarantee, for society as a whole, of respect for animal life and the soundness of the scientific approach.