• Developing new treatments for diseases or ways of preventing disease 37%
  
• Fundamental biological and medical research 32%
  
• Breeding of laboratory animals (mostly for research) and developing new treatments 26%
  
• Developing new methods of diagnosis 2%

Scientific procedures (toxicology) for safety evaluation (Protection of man, animal, or the environment by toxicology or other safety evaluation) comprise for the year 2000:

• Substances used in the household 1,200
  
• Food Additives* 6,000

Other tests connected with farming and food and health and safety at work were:

• Environmental pollution 35,000
  
• Substances used in agriculture 35,300
  
• Substances used in industry 53,900

Tests on pharmaceuticals and for other purposes 35,5500

*“The term food additives covers substances deliberately added to food as preservatives, artificial colorants or flavoring agents but not studies on the nutritive value of food, accidental contamination or infection of food or medicines administered to animals or humans in food.” Quick, biochemically-based tests are being introduced to replace procedures involving live animals in outbreaks of foodborne infection, for instance those involved in investigating BSE and its consequences; VEGA persisted in evidence to the BSE Inquiry in remembering the toll inflicted on animals as well as on human consumers and their loved-ones of the suspect meat (and, possibly, of other animal-derived products or recipients of medications).

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