Dutch ban on animal experiments

2. An exit is not practicable

The German science initiative “Tierversuche verstehen” addressed the NCad report in depth and analysed additional documents from Dutch ministries. It emerged from this analysis that an exit of research from the use of animal experiments in the Netherlands was neither planned nor possible. The Netherlands also abandoned the 2025 deadline for an exit in the regulatory domain completely. In scientific basic research, applied research and educational programmes, an absolute renunciation of animal experiments is now seen as impracticable also by the NCad. For without animal experiments, it is not possible to conduct research into the complex functions of the living organism and the interactions of the various human organs, and thus neither the dangers nor the effects of substances can be tested. The scientific community would therefore be prevented from finding answers to biomedical questions without endangering human lives.