Committee finds 'particularly harmful' experiments on mice should be scrapped in NSW

A parliamentary committee has recommended "rapidly phasing out" two experiments performed on mice for medical research purposes in New South Wales.

The "forced swim test" involves placing a mouse in water deep enough to compel it to swim, and observing it until it stops struggling.

In the "smoking tower test", mice are restrained in a small chamber and exposed to cigarette smoke or other hazardous inhalants in order to induce disease.

The inquiry into the use of primates and other animals in medical research was established in December last year, after three baboons escaped from a truck at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

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