End Animal Testing for Dietary Supplements
- av: Cynthia Pileggi
- mottagare: Natural Products Industry
We invite members of the Natural Products Industry, its leaders, manufacturers and consumers to end to use of animal-based testing for dietary supplements and herbs, including raw materials and finished goods. Animal Cruelty is not embraced by retailers and consumers of the Natural Products Industry. Each year over 115 million mice, dogs, rabbits, cats, birds, horses, chimpanzee's and other living animals are used in experimentation worldwide. Our industry offers Cruelty-Free Cosmetics. It is time to offer Cruelty-Free, non-animal tested, dietary supplements, foods and related products.
There are effective alternative toxicity tests to insure ingredient safety; animal testing is unnecessary. According to standards set for scientific evidence in nutrition, animal studies are not relevant without human studies to support them. Animal based research is generally not efficient, often unreliable, and human studies are still required. There are many reliable non-animal methods available that can be successfully used instead. The time has come to abolish animal testing on raw materials and finished goods for all products purveyed in the Natural Products Industry.
There are effective alternative toxicity tests to insure ingredient safety; animal testing is unnecessary. According to standards set for scientific evidence in nutrition, animal studies are not relevant without human studies to support them. Animal-testing does not provide the appropriate substantiation. Animal based research is generally not efficient, often unreliable, and human studies are still required. There are several reliable non-animal methods: Human Clinical / Patient Studies, Epidemiology (human population studies), Autopsies/Biopsies, Post-Marketing Surveillance, In Vitro Cell, moulage/SIM, and Tissue Cultures (cancer and new drug therapies can be successfully tested using these models), etc.
The time has come to abolish animal testing on raw materials and finished goods for all products purveyed in the Natural Products Industry. A majority of the herbs and foods purveyed by our industry have been traditionally, locally, and /or culturally used, and many are generally recognized as safe.
Thank you.
Please contact: VOICES for Animals at VOICESforAnimals.2010@gmail.com
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