Inspection rates at animal test sites low

Just 66 inspections were carried out at organisations who conducted experiments on 818,000 animals over a six-year period.

Given that 40 companies and institutions registered for animal experimentation between 2005 and 2010, the figures mean on average, each premises was inspected just once every four years.

Even accounting for the fact that 42 out of the 66 inspections in this period were carried out in 2009 and 2010, this still equates to an inspection rate for each institution of just once every two years.