Scientific procedures carried out on live animals in 2009

The Home Office published figures today showing the number of scientific procedures carried out on live animals in Great Britain last year. According to the report, 3.6m procedures were carried out in 2009. While the number of other procedures fell by 8% , breeding of genetically modified animals rose by 10% on 2008. We've taken the key tables from the report and compiled them into one dataset. Download the spreadsheet to find out which animals are most commonly used in testing, how many procedures are carried out under anaesthetic and the purpose of tests carried out. Download the data • DATA: Scientific procedures carried out on live animals in 2009 World government data • Search the world's government with our gateway Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter Data summary