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# 91999E0032

**WRITTEN QUESTION No. 32/99 by Nikitas KAKLAMANIS Viagra and the ill-treatment of animals** 
  
*Official Journal C 325 , 12/11/1999 P. 0059*

  

WRITTEN QUESTION E-0032/99

by Nikitas Kaklamanis (UPE) to the Commission

(20 January 1999)

Subject: Viagra and the ill-treatment of animals

Reports have recently appeared in the European press that the company which manufactures the well-known drug Viagra carried out experiments on dogs in its laboratory in the Sandwich area in the United Kingdom.

During these experiments many of the dogs were killed and scores of others suffered appallingly.

Will the Commission say whether its services were informed about the ill-treatment and killing of scores of innocent dogs and, if so, what action it has taken to identify those responsible so as to prevent anything similar occurring in future?

Answer given by Mr Bangemann on behalf of the Commission

(27 April 1999)

The Commission would refer the Honourable Member to its answer to Written Question E-3349/98 by Mr Tamino(1).

(1) OJ C 297, 15.10.1999, p. 66.

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