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Draize Test

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Thousands of rabbits suffer and/or die as a result of Draize test just in the United States alone.
Draize test involves placing a flake, granule, liquid, or some powdered substance directly into the eyes of rabbits and measuring how the eye deteriorates over a period of time.
These test substances include soaps, eye shadow, eye liner, or similar items.
This test is also conducted on guinea pigs, dogs, rats, and several other animals.
The result of running this test is not a reliable indicator of how humans will respond to any of those products.
Liquid, flake, granule, and powdered substances are placed into the eyes of rabbits, and then the eyes' progressive deterioration is recorded. The Draize test is responsible for the suffering and death of thousands of rabbits each year in the United States but does not prevent or help cure human injury.
Animals have a different biological system than humans and the results of animal testing is not a reliable measure of human response.

LD50 Test

This test is an acute toxicity test, otherwise called as lethal dose or poisoning test. Did you know that this test is run to determine at what dosage of the test chemical 50% or more of the test population dies? The animal is forced to ingest the chemical. It is said that the dosage given to the animals kill them within a period of 2 to 4 weeks. Animals suffer tremendously during the entire testing period before they die.

"I have no use for Draize test data because the rabbit eye differs from the human eye ... I know of no case in which an ophthalmologist used Draize data to assist in the care of a patient." - Ophthalmologist Stephen Kaufman, M.D. of New York University Medical Center.		"The Draize test does not adequately reflect the degree of irritancy in humans." - Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing.

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