European Parliament and Provisional data 13 June 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-1721/02 by Roberta Angelilli (UEN) to the Commission. Monitoring of nuclear power stations.

The 1998 OECD document on the ‘Validation of test methods considered for the adoption as OECD test guidelines’ (ENV/MC/CHEM (98) 6) acknowledged that ‘… there seems to be a tendency towards being stricter for ’alternative’ or ’replacement’ tests than for ’conventional’ animal tests, filling gaps of so far uncovered areas.