Another 6 years to wait for the end of the tests on animals of abuse substances such as drugs, alcohol and tobacco? It is the danger feared after, at the last session at the first permanent commission (Constitutional Affairs) of the Senate on the bill of law S.1337, it was proposed Yet another slip of the ban on animal tests for abuse substances such as smoke and alcohol and xenotrapriants (organ transplant between different species) of another six years, postponing this fundamental ban which should enter into force on 1 July 2025.
In recent years, Italy has implemented the European Directive that protects the well -being of the animals used for scientific purposes by introducing two prohibitions: their application is currently extended in July 2025, and concern the first for the ban on using animals for research on xenotrapriants organ; the second the use of animals for studies on abuse substances.
Lav had obtained the insertion of improvement constraints in Legislative Decree 26/2014 which regulates animal experimentation in Italy: constraints approved by the Chamber and the Senate since 2013 and which have made it possible to close forever lager farms such as that of Green Hill.
The ban on testing substances, moreover already widely widespread, such as tobacco and organ transplantation between species (bankruptcy field since the 1960s that has caused deaths also in recent years) had to enter into force in 2017, but the anchored lobby lobby To a useless and obsolete research, he postponed him to 2020, then 2022 and finally to 2025, they say by the animal rights association.
It would be decidedly more productive and advantageous if these political forces focus on financing the research dedicated to the so -called Non Animal Methodologies (NAMS), a sector in rapid growth globally and which instead arranges here again and struggles to find adequate support. This lack of investments risks leaving our country back, compromising the competitiveness of the entire scientific sector.
Currently, the funds intended for alternative methods to animal experimentation amount to zero, recognize its priority and a growing number of citizens requires a more innovative and without animal suffering approach.
The merciless confrontation with other European countries, such as Holland and Belgium, where governments invest millions of euros in research Human-Basedhighlights the concrete danger that Italy will remain the tail light in the European panorama.
