Freedom of Information request on animal studies performed for COVID-19 vaccines
Published 28 May 2021
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30th April 2021 FOI 21/396
Dear
Thank you for your email.
The MHRA’s assessment of the non-clinical data is available in the Public Assessment Reports (PARs), please review the following links to these for the authorised Covid-19 vaccines and please note that the details of the animal studies performed for each vaccine are available there.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-for-covid-19 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-covid-19-vaccine-moderna
Regarding the question concerning animal testing in general, by law new medicines are required to be tested on animals before they can advance to phase testing on human volunteers in clinical trials.
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