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Issues and Trends in Animal Experiments
Use of primates
For several years the number of primates used has held steady at about 4,000 annually, having dropped from over 5,000 in the early 1990s.
In 2007, around 4,000 procedures involved non-human primates, a fall of 6% on 2006. However, as the Home Office released the 2007 statistics, experts were warning that developments in stem cell research and new antibody-based treatments are likely to see an increase in the number of experiments involving non-human primates in the future. Over the past few years, the use of non-human primates for research into conditions such as stroke, Alzheimers and Parkinson's has also impacted on the number of non-human primates used.
The issue of non-human primate experiments has been of grave concern to Naturewatch for many years, and is partly why we are campaigning for an end to some of the most abhorrent procedures.
