 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requires more chemical toxicity testing than any other federal agency. Tests commonly required by the EPA include skin corrosion and absorption testing, eye irritancy studies, lethal dose (acute poisoning) tests, and numerous other long and short-term studies. These tests involve forcing animals to eat, inhale, or be injected with chemicals. The standard battery of animal tests for food-use pesticides includes 19 separate animal tests on thousands of rabbits, hamsters, and dogs. Until very recently, the EPA has entirely excluded the animal protection community and animal welfare considerations from its decision-making process. The agency resists considering non-animal alternatives when they are available and has done virtually no research to develop or validate non-animal test methods.
Your help is urgently needed to stop two new testing programs — the endocrine disruptor screening program and the children's health testing program.
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