TO: All members of Nanotech

In the US scientists plan to develop sophisticated `robotic machines'
to screen chemicals, a step which could replace invasive animal tests
on animals such as mice and rats.

It is in all our interest that Animal Testing is replaced with
Alternatives based on Human Biology not Animals.

In Britain some 420,000 animal experiments were conducted in 2006 to
test the safety of chemicals. REACH, the largest mass animal testing
programme in Europe's history, will see the testing of 30,000
chemicals on up to 10 millions animals. Non-animal test strategies,
like that being looked at in the US, could provide more reliable
data, generated more quickly and at a dramatically lower cost than
animal tests.

For more on this visit
http://www.drhadwentrust.org/

More information on REACH at
http://www.eceae.org/english/chemicals.html

More on New Technology for Alternative Testing:

A film Safer Medicines, shows how latest technologies could supplant
animal tests in drug development to deliver safer drugs to patients
more cost effectively. Described by Tony Benn as "A very important
film". This can be viewed at Europeans for Medical Progress website
http://www.curedisease.net/

Thank You

T. Gallett, London, England