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Animal Testing Research

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The debate about animal testing gains more and more attention every day. It is questioned whether it is ethical to test on living animals or not. Ethical or not, animals are the closest living organisms that have very similar structures to the human body. Animal testing has had a major impact on the improvements of finding drugs and treatments for our health and medicine. Both drugs and cosmetics are by law ought to be tested before being distributed out to the market. This law was established in 1938 when the U.S law passed the Food, Drug and cosmetic act. While searching to discover if my everyday facial cream is tested on animals I found that effectively it is. Knowing that the Neutrogena the #1 dermatologist recommended acne wash is being tested effectively gives the consumer relief of …show more content…

In the article they mention “safety, toxicity tests on the finished products may be skipped”. After several incidents involving untested products it was made mandatory for the both cosmetics and drugs to be tested. In the 1930s due to the lack of cosmetic testing more than a dozen women went blind after using a mascara that contained a chemical that was prone to burning the skin. Skipping the toxicity test is unacceptable to use the consumers. Even when the products are tested there is not a one hundred percent that the product is completely safe to use. By skipping the test even if it is the final product and it has already been tested it does not give us any better outcome of the use of the product. The testing is done for a reason it is not just another process to take up time or money. I would rather have my products tested in an alternative way that is not animal testing, than not have it tested at all. We the consumers are trusting on the manufactures that they will effectively test our products and that we can us them without expecting any

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