Essay on Animal Testing

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Animal Testing
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Every year, millions of animals suffer and die in painful tests to
determine the safety of
cosmetics. Substances such as eye shadow and soap are tested on
rabbits, rats, guinea
pigs, dogs, and other animals, despite the fact that the test results
don’t help prevent or
treat human illness or injury.

Cosmetics are not required to be tested on animals and since
non-animal
alternatives exist, it’s hard to understand why some companies still
continue to conduct
these tests. Cosmetic companies kill millions of animals every year to
try to make a profit.

According to the companies that perform these tests, they are done to
establish the safety
of a product and the ingredients. However, the Food and Drug

Administration (FDA)
which regulates cosmetic products, does not require animal testing.

Some of the tests
used on animals are eye irritancy tests, acute toxicity tests, and skin
irritancy tests.

In eye irritancy tests, a liquid, flake, granule, or powdered
substance is dropped
into the eyes of a group of albino rabbits. The animals are often
immobilized in stocks
from which only their heads protrude. They usually receive no
anesthesia during the tests.

After placing the substance into the rabbits eyes, lab technicians
record the damage to the
eye tissue at specific intervals over an average period of 72 hours.

The tests sometimes
last seven to eighteen days. Reactions to the substances include
swollen eyelids,
ulceration, bleeding, swollen iris

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