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Analysis Chemical Thank You EU court upholds ban on chlorpyrifos-methyl, setting regulatory precedent in the process

Agency IQ

While this development, on its own, is noteworthy, the judiciary rationale behind the ruling will impact wider EU trends and serve as precedent for future chemical regulation. These statements emboldened member states to vote in favor of draft implementing acts denying renewal for both active substances in December 2019.

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Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents

Codon

It may seem that if researchers are sufficiently concerned about the welfare of lab animals, the best thing to do would be to stop using animals altogether. However, a multitude of factors—from institutional inertia to a global animal-testing industry worth billions of dollars —make this outcome unlikely.

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Everything Wrong with Mouse Studies (Kinda)

Codon

It did not change at all between the years 1972 and 2019, despite everything I’m about to tell you. Mice raised at five different animal facilities in Europe, under otherwise identical conditions , have “persistent differences in body weight” and behavior. DNA differences accumulate over generations of breeding.

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