date:May 18, 2012
This is a significant milestone in meeting the UKs commitment to reduce the burden of animal testing and has been achieved after years of FSA-funded research.
PSP and lipophilic toxins can cause severe illness if people consume them, so it is important that our shellfish monitoring programme is as effective as possible at detecting them. In order to meet our commitment, we have had to ensure suitable alternative methods are introduced in all our statutory biotoxin testing.
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