Why do most large companies test their products on animals while many smaller companies can produce high-quality products without animal testing?
By law, all manufacturers must generate data proving their products are safe. This is easier to do if a company is small and makes a limited range of products using ingredients already known to be safe. Larger companies, which often create ingredients as well as final products, face a more difficult problem: they must ensure that new, previously untested ingredients are safe. Even in these cases, the company generally will conduct a series of non-animal tests before testing the new ingredient on animals. In this way, they often can reduce the number animals needed and cause less pain or suffering the animals that are tested on. In some cases, companies that advertise themselves as “cruelty-free” actually purchase animal-tested ingredients from large companies to use in their “not tested on animals” products.
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