National Council to Control Animal Experimentation (CONCEA) and Alternative methods: How and When? José Mauro Granjeiro, PhD Council to Control Animal Experimentation (Concea) Coordinator National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Life Science Applied Metrology Directory Deputy Director / Senior Research Fluminense Federal University Adjunct Professor
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National Council to Control Animal
Experimentation (CONCEA) and
Alternative methods: How and When?
José Mauro Granjeiro, PhDCouncil to Control Animal Experimentation (Concea)Coordinator
National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology - Life Science Applied Metrology DirectoryDeputy Director / Senior Research
Fluminense Federal UniversityAdjunct Professor
Main points
• Brazilian Legislation
• Law 11,794/2008
• CONCEA structure
• Normative Resolution 17 and 18
• Actual scenario
• Challenges
MAIN HISTORIC ASPECTS
Brazilian Legislation
Brazilian Federal Constitution 1988
Article 225, § 1st
all have the right to an ecologically balanced environment, which is
an asset of common use and essential to a healthy quality of life,
and both the Government and the community shall have the duty to defend and preserve it for present and future generations.
VII - protect the fauna and the flora, with
prohibition, in the manner prescribed by law,
of all practices which represent a risk to their
ecological function, cause the extinction of
species or subject animals to cruelty.
Law Nº 9,605/1998.
• Art. 32. Practice abuse, abuse, injure or
mutilate wild, domestic or domesticated,
native or exotic animals
– Penalty - detention of three months to one year
and fine.
– § 1. The same penalties who performs painful or cruel experiments on live animals, even for
educational or scientific purposes, when there
are alternative resources.
The CONCEA is the Brazilian legal
authority responsible to regulate
the use of animals in teaching
and scientific activities
(Law 11,794 / 2008)
Aims
• To discipline the humanitarian and ethical use of
animals with the purpose of teaching, research and
technological development
• To coin Legal Security in relation to the use of animals.
• Legitimate implementation of policies related to the
Control of Animal Experimentation (Ex. Policies
alternative methods).
• Define and make known the penalties for infractions.
• Transparency to societyhttp://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2007-2010/2008/lei/l11794.htm