A gathering for mice !
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While manufacturers of botulinum toxin are committed to no longer using the LD50 test, a Japanese firm continues to sacrifice mice on masse. One Voice and Doctors against Animal Experiments are mobilizing !
Since
2010 One Voice has campaigned for mice killed in large numbers in
laboratories (see the history of its actions for the abolition of
animal experimentation). The case of those sacrificed for the
production of botulinum toxin is particularly cruel. The LD50 (or
median lethal dose) test is performed for each batch of toxin to
determine the dose that will kill 50% of the mice. The substance is
injected into the abdomen, causing them intolerable suffering.
Gradually paralyzed, they finally die by suffocation.
In
2011 the Allergan laboratory, the American manufacturer of Botox®,
announced that it had found an in vitro method for the development of
its product, signing a first victory for the European campaign led by
the ECEAE, of which One Voice is the representative for France. Its
direct competitors, IPSEN and Merz, have recently followed suit,
although validation procedures are still in progress. Only a Japanese
firm is still reluctant to give up using mice …
Eisai
is a Japanese laboratory. It sells in Europe Neurobloc®, a botulinum
toxin type B drug. Initially intended for the treatment of
torticollis, its use is spreading today among those whose wrinkles
have become resistant to botulinum toxin type A the competition …
According to our sources, the German laboratory LPT, which carries
out the tests for its account in Europe, was authorized to carry out
the LD50 on 60,000 mice in 2014! And if Eisai declares that a
replacement procedure is being studied, how many will still be
tortured before the final analysis? Let’s mobilize for an immediate
stop of the sacrifice of these mice !
Action for the mice
One
Voice and Doctors against Animal Experiments, its German partner in
the ECEAE, launches a pressure campaign on Eisai.
- Write
to their representative in France !
Or
Eisai
SAS
5/6,
Place de l’Iris
Manhattan
Tower
92095 La
Defense
France
You
will find below the text we recommend you to use:
Dear
Sir or Madam,
I
am horrified to learn that your firm is commissioning the LPT
contract laboratory to do tests using LD50 your NeuroBloc® product
with botulinum toxin B. In 2014, no less than 60,000 mice have been
killed!
Other
manufacturers have already abandoned animal testing in favour of
methods using human cells.
Therefore,
I ask you to immediately stop the LD50 tests on mice and replace it
with an ethical alternative, one without animals.
Regards,
Name_________________________
Address________________________
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