Dods conducted an online survey of 2,512 UK health and care professionals in March 2016.
They were asked one question about their perception of pharmaceutical testing regulations on behalf of Safer Medicines Trust.
The overwhelming majority of health professionals (79 per cent) agree that pharmaceutical companies should be legally obliged to test new medicines using methods demonstrated to be the most predictive of safety for humans.
Just three per cent of health professionals disagreed that pharmaceutical companies should be legally obliged to test new medicines using methods demonstrated to be the most predictive of safety for humans.
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