A big scandal in Germany: a laboratory in Hamburg would have years of results from #proefdieronderzoek falsified. Rats that died during experiments have been reported to have been replaced by live animals, and tumours detected in laboratory animals have been removed from reports. Some of the studies on the basis of which the herbicides glyphosate has been authorised in Europe were also carried out by this German lab.

The animal rights activist discovered that the death of a monkey had been withheld by employees. On footage that theZDF programme FAKT on October 15, 2019, it can be seen that a monkey has a different number tattooed on the chest than is indicated on the card near his cage. Employees told the infiltrator that the original animal had died during a trial for a pharmaceutical company, and then secretly replaced by a new monkey. During the autopsy, the second monkey had the skin with the tattoo number of the first monkey.

The laboratory in question works on behalf of large pharmaceutical and chemical companies. For the market authorisation of medicines and pesticides in the European Union, manufacturers must carry out animal studies. This is to prove that there is no 'unacceptable' health risk for people. These studies must comply with the 'Good Laboratory Practice' (GLP), a quality mark that imposes strict rules. Supervisors rely on this label as a guarantee against fraud. The laboratory in Hamburg had such a quality mark.

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German 'Fraud Laboratory' produced glyphosate admission studies