Hudson Michelle
FRAME, 96-98 North Sherwood Street, Nottingham, NG1 4EE, UK.
Altern Lab Anim. 2006 May;34(2):241-54. doi: 10.1177/026119290603400210.
The Freedom of Information Act 2000 prompted the Government to evaluate how public understanding about the use of animals in scientific research can be improved and how animal experimentation is regulated within the UK. This resulted in the publication of anonymous project licence abstracts. Here, the abstracts published between December 2004 and October 2005 have been evaluated, by using a scoring system which takes into account their content and format, in order to assess whether they provide information that will facilitate the increased implementation of reduction, refinement and replacement strategies. The potential impact of freely-available Home Office project licence abstracts on public attitudes to animal testing and on the quality of animal-based research, is also discussed. Although some abstracts scored well, in general, the abstracts were found to be severely lacking in detail about the welfare of experimental animals. Thus, the abstracts tend to present a distorted picture of animal-based research. Many abstracts lack the details which would reveal how the licensing criteria had been met. It is concluded that, in their current form, the project abstracts are not sufficiently informative. A number of recommendations are made, which address this problem.
2000年的《信息自由法》促使政府评估如何提高公众对科学研究中动物使用的理解，以及英国如何对动物实验进行监管。这导致了匿名项目许可摘要的发布。在此，通过使用一个考虑其内容和格式的评分系统，对2004年12月至2005年10月期间发布的摘要进行了评估，以评估它们是否提供了有助于更多实施减少、优化和替代策略的信息。还讨论了内政部免费提供的项目许可摘要对公众对动物实验的态度以及基于动物的研究质量的潜在影响。尽管一些摘要得分较高，但总体而言，发现这些摘要严重缺乏关于实验动物福利的细节。因此，这些摘要往往呈现出对基于动物的研究的扭曲图景。许多摘要缺乏能揭示如何符合许可标准的细节。得出的结论是，以目前的形式，项目摘要的信息不够充分。针对这一问题提出了一些建议。
