Reply to comment “Animal welfare and ethics in the collection of fetal blood for the production of fetal bovine serum”

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Tilo Weber , Frigga Wirths, Nina Brakebusch, Jan van der Valk
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Weber, T. (2021) “Reply to comment ‘Animal welfare and ethics in the collection of fetal blood for the production of fetal bovine serum’”, ALTEX - Alternatives to animal experimentation, 38(2), pp. 324–326. doi: 10.14573/altex.2103191.
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