ANIMAL activists say the "pointless" killing of eight baboons used in a Sydney study highlights the need to end animal experimentation.
In the study, reported in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, surgeons from Royal North Shore Hospital cut the shoulder tendons of the baboons and then undertook tendon-to-bone repair of the rotator cuff of each animal to study healing rates.
The ageing female baboons were killed in the course of the research, which was approved by the University of NSW Ethics Committee and the Central Sydney Area Health Service Animal Welfare Committee.
Humane Research Australia's CEO Helen Marston said the study, published in 2010, highlighted the plight of lab animals during Global World Week For Animals in Laboratories.
The baboons had died in a "pointless and cruel surgery experiment", she said.
"The final conclusion was a recommendation that excessive tension on the repair site should be avoided for at least 12 weeks, hardly a new revelation, and one that is already well known and documented by orthopaedic surgeons around the world," Ms Marston said.
The University of NSW said the baboon research was done almost 20 years ago, although it conceded that it sometimes conducted research that required the use of animals.
"All research involving animals at UNSW is subject to the Australian Code of Practice for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purpose and is subject to strict ethical guidelines and monitoring by the UNSW Animal Care and Ethics Committee," a spokeswoman said in a statement.
The article also notes that "ethical problems associated with primate research have generally prevented the undertaking of systematic experimental study of the pathology of the rotator cuff in such animals".
Seven million animals are used annually for experimentation in Australian research labs in "a largely self-regulated system," Humane Research claims.
A National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) spokesman said it developed animal experimentation guidelines but each state was responsible for implementing them and regulating animal research.
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