EuroNICHE—the European Network of Individuals and Campaigns for Humane Education—has produced a 33-minute video featuring state-of-the-art alternatives to animal experiments. The video offers a range of alternative methods for experiments traditionally used in anatomy, physiology, surgery, and pharmacology courses. The video includes computer simulation and learning packages, computer-linked human self-testing apparatus, waste organ surgical training apparatus, high-resolution video and a veterinary training model. Full details of the products and producers are available. Further alternative approaches for practical work requiring animal tissue are covered in the film with the sourcing and use of naturally-dead or euthanised animals, and clinical practice.
To promote its use, the video currently is being shown and distributed across Europe, the United States, Australia, and Japan to teachers and students of biological sciences, veterinary and human medicine, and to ethics committees, legislators and animal protection groups. The film is currently available in English, Czech, Slovak, Russian and Japanese. It will be available soon in French, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Ukrainian, and Romanian.
EuroNICHE is a non-profit, charitable network of students and teachers with contacts in more than 20 European countries, the United States, Australia and Japan.
The cost is £12 in Western Europe, £6 in Eastern Europe, $20 in the United States, and $30 in Australia.
For more information, contact EuroNICHE coordinator Nick Jukes: tel +44 7867 513 215 (mobile), tel/fax +44 1892 548 462, e-mail: lynx@gn.ape.org.
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