What is Product Testing?
Product testing is the use of animals in tests to determine the relative toxicity of the chemicals that constitute the consumer products that are used in our homes everyday. Dish detergent, laundry soap, toothpaste, mouthwash, oven cleaner, etc. are often the result of barbaric tests that poison, burn, and torture hundred of thousands of animals every year. Rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, mice, and other species of animals are used in cruel tests that subject them to high levels of caustic chemicals. What Kinds of Tests are Performed? Several kinds of tests are performed for consumer products. Skin irritancy, eye irritancy, and oral toxicity testing all cause severe suffering for the unanaesthetized animals victimized in these crude tests. Eye irritancy testing places liquefied chemicals are forced into the eyes of fully-conscious rabbits. No pain relievers or anesthetics of any kind are used. Rabbits struggle in the devices that restrain them. The extreme pain often causes them to struggl
