by Penny Hawkins | Mar 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Our 5th RSPCA international meeting will include the usual popular combination of case studies and opportunities for discussion and networking, with a special focus on cumulative severity. This 1.5 day, face to face meeting will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in...
by Penny Hawkins | Feb 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
We are delighted to announce that our Roadmap poster is now available in French and German. Thank you to the Swiss 3R Competence Centre for producing the translations, and for enabling us to showcase the Focus on Severe Suffering project at a joint workshop on...
by Penny Hawkins | Dec 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Focus on Severe Suffering initiative has had a successful year in 2022, with inspiring UK-based and international events, lots of positive support from the scientific community, and published statistics showing further decreases in procedures causing severe...
by Penny Hawkins | Aug 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
The most up-to-date data currently available on the use of animals in research and testing in the European Union (EU), and Norway, was published by the European Commission on 15 July 2022. This information is important for openness and transparency and can also help...
by Penny Hawkins | Jul 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
The most up-to-date data currently available on the use of animals in research and testing in the UK was published on 30 June 2022. A total of 3.06 million scientific procedures were completed on animals in 2021, which is an increase of 6% from the 2.88 million...
by Penny Hawkins | Jun 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
We are taking registrations for our free international meeting, on 24 and 25 August 2022, which we are jointly convening with the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm. This face to face event will include case studies describing how severe suffering was reduced in basic...
by Penny Hawkins | Mar 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Not all severe suffering is predictable – sometimes it can occur due to an unplanned, critical incident. The Critical Incident Reporting System in Laboratory Animal Science (CIRS-LAS) has been set up to enable users to add unplanned events to a database...
by Penny Hawkins | Mar 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Mortality, including animals ‘found dead’, is one of the three main causes of severe suffering. A recent paper by Jessica Cait and others at the University of Guelph, Canada, has highlighted a cause of morbidity and mortality in rodents that many people may not be...
by Penny Hawkins | Mar 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
We are looking forward to our first in-person meeting since 2019, when we will hold a one-day event in central Manchester on 20 April. Looking forward and looking back – opportunities to focus on ‘severe’ suffering will include case studies from researchers at...
