RECENTLY, I suggested that if all medical and veterinary products which were
tested on animals had to carry a label saying so, then people who oppose animal
testing would be able to decide whether they wanted to use those products or not
(New Scientist, 18 March, p 51).
As a result of the support that
suggestion received from readers of New Scientist, I asked the
Secretary of State for Health, Alan Milburn, if the government would introduce
legislation to bring in such labelling.
Yvette Cooper, the junior health minister, replied that all medicines for
human and veterinary use must…
