The "Compass Animal Experiments" is published on the occasion of the International Day of the Laboratory Animal on April 24. On 50 pages, it presents additional information and graphics on the figures in a comprehensible way. The Compass Animal Experiments is aimed primarily at the interested public, but also at experts. It acts as a navigation aid through the sea of figures and percentages and shows that understanding these statistics requires much more than a mere comparison with the previous year.
The Corona pandemic has produced a particular effect. Despite intensive research, for example to develop and test vaccines and Covid-19 drugs, the number of laboratory animals used in Germany fell by 13%. The initiative Understanding Animal Testing explains, among other things, how this seemingly paradoxical effect could occur and why which laboratory animals were used during the pandemic.
Here you can download the Compass Animal Testing 2022.
The article also makes clear that research on coronaviruses had begun many decades before the actual outbreak of Sars-CoV-2 in the fall of 2019. The rapid development of vaccines owes much to decades of preliminary work in basic research. In understanding Long Covid, on the other hand, research is still in its infancy. In addition, the Animal Experimentation Compass compares the different research structures in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, takes a look at "animal-free technologies" and is devoted to animal experiments carried out by researchers to protect species and the environment. Animal experiments are often a very emotionally discussed topic in the public. The initiative "Understanding Animal Experiments" wants to contribute to the public debate with the "Compass Animal Experiments" in a fact-based and yet understandable way.
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