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Mr. Cohen: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to ban the LD50 animal test. [80136]Mr. George Howarth: I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave the hon. Member for Portsmouth, South (Mr. Hancock) on 3 December1998, Official Report, column 110.Whilst we await the deletion of the LD50 test from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's guidelines, we willonly authorise the LD50 test where the applicant can demonstrate a regulatory requirement to use this test rather than analternative. |