Official issues : recommendation of the Life Science Research Group (LSWG) on experimental animals like rats and mice in space research, with revisions including statistics on animal experiments in space, information on bioethics and also results from the LSRA '98 peer evaluation. As annexes: membership of LSWG and Microgravity Advisory Committee (MAC), compilation of numbers of experiments using animals versus humans in space programmes from ESA, NASA and Conseil National des Etudes Spataiales (CNES), summary of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies Policy, opinion of the Group of advisers on the ethical implications of biotechnology to the European Commission, NASA principles for the etchical care and use of animals (Sundowner report, 10/1996).

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