According to a group of French scientists, chemical substances should have provoked the death of 1 million European citizens in 2005. This figure is the result of  an extrapolation based on French statistics. These scientists   are members of Antidote Europe, an NGO which was set up by researchers from the CNRS, the national centre for scientific research. In a press release, they try to raise awareness on the low efficiency of animal tests. The French statistics unveil that 150,000 French citizens died from cancer in 2004. Among them, only 5 to 10 % were genetically predisposed to develop cancer.

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