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Nature Medicine 15, 471 (1 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/nm0509-471b

New animal directive moves forward

Daniel Cressey

European politicians have altered key provisions in draft legislation that will eventually govern all animal experiments in the EU. The European Parliament's agriculture committee voted on 31 March to amend many of the rules that had most worried academic and industry groups when the first draft of a new Europe-wide directive was unveiled last year.