The Animal Welfare Charter of Interpharma was launched ten years ago. With the signing of the charter, the research-based pharmaceutical companies in Switzerland underlined their ethical responsibility in animal experiments both at home and abroad. The guiding principles of the charter are the 3Rs \u2013 Refine, Reduce and Replace \u2013 committing the industry to replace as many animal experiments as possible with alternative methods, to reduce the number of laboratory animals used and to refine the methods so that any stress or constraint is kept to a minimum. When the industry launched the charter in 2010, Christine Egerszegi-Obrist, former member of the Council of States and President of the 3Rs Research Foundation Switzerland, saw this step as an acknowledgement of the efforts and the ambition to establish high standards in animal experiments worldwide as far as possible. She confirmed that, for the industry, it was not about following the minimum legal requirements, but about leading on the world stage by example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2. Making sure animals are handled responsibly The Animal Welfare Charter of Interpharma was launched ten years ago. With the signing of the charter, the research-based pharmaceutical companies in Switzerland underlined their ethical responsibility in animal experiments both at home and abroad. The guiding principles of the charter are the 3Rs \u2013 Refine, Reduce and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1250,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/unterthema.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-920","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n