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  2. What is animal testing? The term “animal testing” refers to procedures performed on living animals for purposes of research into basic biology and diseases, assessing the effectiveness of new medicinal products, and testing the human health and/or environmental safety of consumer and industry products such as cosmetics, household cleaners ...

  3. What Is Animal Testing? Facts and Humane Alternatives - PETA

    www.peta.org/features/animal-testing-facts-questions-answers

    Animal testing refers to the practice of performing unnatural and often painful experiments on animals held captive in stressful laboratory settings, often in the misguided belief that the results of the tests will be applicable to humans.

  4. What Is Animal Testing & Which Animals Are Used For Testing?

    thehumaneleague.org/article/animal-testing

    Animal testing is the process of experimenting on live, non-human animals to assess the effectiveness or safety of cosmetics, household products, or medicines. These experiments often cause tremendous suffering for innocent subjects.

  5. What is animal testing? - Cruelty free international

    crueltyfreeinternational.org/about-animal-testing/what-animal-testing

    An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. Animal experiments are not the same as taking your companion animal to the vet.

  6. Animal Testing Facts - A Gruesome Cruelty That Needs To End

    worldanimalfoundation.org/advocate/animal-testing-facts

    Animal testing is the process of using animals as guinea pigs for human inquisition and has been going on for decades. During testing, experimenters force animals to endure often barbaric treatments to see what the results will be. There are two primary forms of animal experimentation.

  7. The Truth About Animal Testing | PETA

    www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/animal-testing

    Examples of animal tests include forcing mice and rats to inhale toxic fumes, force-feeding dogs pesticides, and dripping corrosive chemicals into rabbits’ sensitive eyes. Even if a product harms animals, it can still be marketed to consumers.

  8. Animal testing - Wikipedia

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    Animal testing, also known as animal experimentation, animal research, and in vivo testing, is the use of non-human animals, such as model organisms, in experiments that seek to control the variables that affect the behavior or biological system under study.

  9. Animal testing, sometimes called in vivo testing, is a process of determining if certain medications, vaccines and cosmetics are safe for humans by first experimenting with them on animals. Animal testing is common in most countries and has been used in some forms throughout much of human history.

  10. Why Animal Research Is Necessary | Harvard Medical School

    hms.harvard.edu/research/animal-research/why-animal-research-necessary

    In an effort to reduce the use of animals in clinical research, in December 2022 the U.S. government passed legislation that allows drug manufacturers to submit testing data based on non-animal alternatives for biosimilar drugs — medicines that are highly similar to other, already approved ones.

  11. Animal Testing - Humane Society International

    www.hsi.org/issues/animal-testing

    Overview. Imagine a syringe being forced down your throat to inject a chemical into your stomach, or being restrained and forced to breathe sickening vapours for hours. That’s the cruel reality of animal testing for millions of mice, rabbits, dogs and other animals worldwide.