Comment: Comments on Appendix C of the National Institutes of Health Response to the Petition of the American Anti-Vivisection Society to Prohibit the Use of Animals in the Production of Monoclonal Antibodies

Marlies Halder, M. Jim Embleton, René Fischer, Bernard de Geus, Coenraad Hendriksen, Wim A. de Leeuw, Uwe Marx and Michael Balls

On 23 April 1997, the American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) began its “Antibodies Without Animals” campaign with a press conference in New York and by filing a petition with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US Department of Agriculture.