Data sharing, and the avoidance of unnecessary testing, involves requirements based on legislation where owners of experimental data produced using animals are required to share these data with other companies who are also obliged to submit these data to the government to avoid unnecessary animal testing. The user of the data has to compensate the owner of the data for (part of) the expenses to produce the data.
For a medium resource implementation, you could choose either of the following:
- Use university laboratories in your country and finance some equipment, or pay for the analysis directly or through donor countries; or
- Obtain donor support to set up government laboratories and to run them with your own resources.
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :