Support F.R.A.M.E.and help End Medical Testing On Animals
- by: Borg Drone
- recipient: Prime Minister David Cameron & University of Nottingham
FRAME : Fund for Replacement of Animals in Medical Testing
Animal testing in science and medicine has its limits both ethical and practical. So scientists are working to develop experimentation that's cheaper, faster and, sometimes, more accurate.
FRAME's ultimate aim is the elimination of the need to use laboratory animals in any kind of medical or scientific procedure.
FRAME is dedicated to the development of new and valid methods that will replace the need for laboratory animals in medical and scientific research, education, and testing.
Where the use of animals is currently necessary, FRAME supports the reduction of numbers involved to an unavoidable minimum and refinement of experimental procedures to minimize any suffering caused.
FRAME was founded by Dorothy Hegarty who was introduced to the Three Rs by the biologist Charles Foister. It was registered as a UK charity in 1969. FRAME had a starting fund of %uFFFD100 and was first based in a room in the Hegarty house in Wimbledon, London. Eventually, money from donations provided a salary for a secretary. Soon, enough funds were available for FRAME to rent a shop in Worple Rd, Raynes Park, London where it was based for almost a decade. http://www.frame.org.uk/
1978 - FRAME held a symposium at the Royal Society on the Use of Alternatives in Drug Research.
1981 - Michael Balls became Chairman of the FRAME trustees and FRAME moved to Nottingham. Soon after, a research programme and links with the University of Nottingham were established.
1979 - The FRAME Toxicity Committee presented its first report on alternatives to using animals for toxicity testing at the Animals and Alternatives in Toxicity Testing conference, organised by FRAME, and held at the Royal Society in 1982.
1983 - ATLA (Alternatives to Laboratory Animals) relaunched With the help of funding from the Maurice Laing Foundation. ATLA, formerly a pamphlet style publication, was relaunched as a peer-reviewed international scientific journal.
1983 - FRAME joined with the British Veterinary Association (BVA) and the Committee for the Reform of Animal Experimentation (CRAE) to advise the government on the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act.
1984 - FRAME receives first ever government grant to research replacement methods
1986 - FRAME expanded into new premises on the 1st floor of Eastgate House in the historic Lace Market area of Nottingham. In the same year, FRAME received the first Marchig Animal Welfare Award from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA). The following year, Michael Balls became one of the founder members of the Animals Procedures Committee.
1989 - INVITTOX, a collection of protocols for in vitro methods in toxicology, was established. This database is now part of ECVAM's Scientific Information Service.
1991 - The FRAME Alternatives Laboratory (FAL) opened to conduct research into alternatives.
1995 - The FRAME office relocated to the newly built Russell & Burch House, Nottingham.
1998 - FRAME became a founder member of Focus on Alternatives. This body promotes dialogue between all UK groups that focus on replacement alternatives.
1999 - Bill Russell delivered the first annual FRAME Lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine. In 2005, the Annual Lecture was renamed the Bill Annett Lecture in memory of Bill Annett, and in recognition of his life long commitment to FRAME.
2000-2003 - EU regulators accepted the first three replacement alternatives to animal-based toxicity testing. One of these, a phototoxicity test, had been validated in a 1997 study that involved the FAL.
2007 - The new FRAME Alternatives Laboratory opened at the University of Nottingham Medical School
http://www.grumpyoldeafies.com/2007/08/buav_guide_to_animal_testing_d.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fund_for_the_Replacement_of_Animals_in_Medical_Experiments
Prime Minister David Cameron
Deputy PM Nick Clegg
The University of Nottingham
No one relishes using animals for experimentation, but the medical community has long insisted that such research helps develop potentially life-saving drugs and treatments. Is this justification compelling enough to continue using animals for medical research?
Animal testing in science and medicine has its limits both ethical and practical. So scientists are working to develop experimentation that's cheaper, faster and, sometimes, more accurate.
Replacement alternatives refers to methods which avoid or replace the use of animals in an area where animals would otherwise have been used. This includes both absolute replacements (i.e. replacing animals with inanimate systems, such as computer programs) and relative replacements (i.e. replacing more sentient animals such as vertebrates, with animals that current scientific evidence indicates have a significantly lower potential for pain perception, such as some invertebrates).
We the undersigned Urge you to consider More Alternative's
to Animal Testing And Provide Funding For F.R.A.M.E.
http://www.ccac.ca/en/alternatives/replacement_remplacement.html
We Thank You for Your Time And Full Attention To This Matter.
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