An Estimate of the Number of Animals Used for Scientific Purposes Worldwide in 2015
An Estimate of the Number of Animals Used for Scientific Purposes Worldwide in 2015
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DOI：
10.1177/0261192919899853
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发表时间：
2019-11-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Alvarez, Laura Rego
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作者：
Taylor, Katy;Alvarez, Laura Rego
自从我们自己在2005年估计有1.152亿只动物用于实验以来，很少有人尝试估计全球使用动物的数量。在这里，我们提供2015年的最新情况。根据欧盟指令2010/63/EU中使用的“动物”和“程序”定义，对37个公布国家统计数据的国家的数据进行了标准化。我们还应用了一个基于发表率的预测模型来估计另外142个国家的动物使用情况。由此得出全球科学程序中使用动物的总估计数为7990万头，比2005年5830万头的估计数字增加了36.9%。我们进一步推断了这一估计，以获得2015年用于科学目的的动物数量的更全面的最终全球数字，为1.921亿只。这一数字包括为获取组织而被杀死的动物、没有有害基因突变、用于维持转基因菌株的正常和转基因（GM）动物，以及为实验室使用而饲养但未被使用的动物。自2005年的研究以来，公布用于实验的动物数量数据的国家数量并没有明显增加。如果没有定期、准确的统计，就无法有效监测替代、减少和改进动物实验的影响。
Few attempts have been made to estimate the global use of animals in experiments, since our own estimated figure of 115.2 million animals for the year 2005. Here, we provide an update for the year 2015. Data from 37 countries that publish national statistics were standardised against the definitions of 'animals' and 'procedures' used in the European Union (EU) Directive 2010/63/EU. We also applied a prediction model, based on publication rates, to estimate animal use in a further 142 countries. This yielded an overall estimate of global animal use in scientific procedures of 79.9 million animals, a 36.9% increase on the equivalent estimated figure for 2005, of 58.3 million animals. We further extrapolated this estimate to obtain a more comprehensive final global figure for the number of animals used for scientific purposes in 2015, of 192.1 million. This figure included animals killed for their tissues, normal and genetically modified (GM) animals without a harmful genetic mutation that are used to maintain GM strains and animals bred for laboratory use but not used. Since the 2005 study, there has been no evident increase in the number of countries publishing data on the numbers of animals used in experiments. Without regular, accurate statistics, the impact of efforts to replace, reduce and refine animal experiments cannot be effectively monitored.