Birds and mice used in animal testing at NI labs have been left without food or water and housed in cages smaller than required by law in a number of breaches, it has emerged.
Queen’s and Ulster universities as well as private firms and non-profit groups experimented on 22,707 animals including beagle dogs, cats, birds, mice, rats, fish, rabbits and farm animals in 2020.
Since 2017, there have been 13 breaches to animal testing law in Northern Ireland - almost half of which took place in 2021.
