The European Commission's Opinion Backing Use of Non-Human Primates is Flawed
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
A recent opinion of the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) that supports the use of non-human primates (NHPs) in biomedical research is scientifically flawed. It fails to evaluate in a critical manner the contributions to biomedical science that the committee assumes are made by NHP research and simply disregards proof of the contribution that human biology-based methods are now able to make.