I need animal testing facts?

Question

i really find the same things i would like some statistics or interesting facts

Answer 1

-Animal Testing has increased the average lifespan of humans by 23.5 years.

Answer 2

- Animal testing costs the American public over $136 billion annually.

- Drugs that pass animal tests end up harming or killing humans about 61% of the time.

- Cosmetic companies perform more then half of all animal tests.

- Since 1901, 2/3 of all Noble Prizes in medicine have been awarded to scientists that used alternative technologies, not animal experiments in there research.

- More than 100,000 people have been hospitalized and later died from toxic reactions to medications in 1994 that were not predicted by animal tests.

Answer 3

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Consumer Product Safety Commission do not require animal testing for cosmetics or household products.
Sufficient existing safety data, as well as in vitro (test tube) alternatives make animal testing for cosmetics and household products unnecessary.
Because mice and rats are excluded from the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), the actual number of animals used in product testing is unreported and unknown. It has been estimated that as many as 100 million mice are used in U.S. laboratories every year.
Common animal tests currently used for cosmetics and household products include the Draize eye irritancy test, oral toxicity tests, and skin irritancy tests.
Animals used in testing are most usually purchased from specialized breeding facilities. However, they may also be taken from the wild or acquired from animal shelters (through a practice known as “pound seizure”).
Animals used in product testing most commonly include guinea pigs, rabbits, mice, rats, and dogs. Animal subjects can also include cats, ferrets, birds, and nonhuman primates, to name a few.
Claims about animal testing on packaging and labels of cosmetics and household products are not regulated. Statements such as “not tested on animals” or “cruelty-free” can be deceptive, and require further inquiry.
Shop with confidence and compassion by only purchasing products from companies approved by the Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics (CCIC) — the Leaping Bunny program. This is the only international standard that ensures that both products and ingredients did not involve new animal testing.
Animal testing can occur anywhere within the manufacturing process, including final (or finished) products, ingredient suppliers, associated manufacturers, and contract testing laboratories.
Animal testing for cosmetics has been banned in a number of European Union (EU) countries and a complete EU-wide ban is on the way.

During the last 80+ years, scientists experimenting on trillions of animals, came up with 900 ways of causing cancer in a mouse...BUT NO CURE TO HUMANS! Brailsford, MD, J. F.

We have cured mice of cancer for decades--and it simply didn't work in humans. Klausner, Dr. Richard
of the National Institute of Cancer

What good does it do you to test something [a vaccine] in a monkey? You find five or six years from now that it works in the monkey, and then you test it in humans and you realize that humans behave totally differently from monkeys, so you’ve wasted five years. Feinberg, Dr. Mark
a leading AIDS researcher

Answer 4

http://www.geocities.com/paws_n_tails/AnimalTestingFacts.html

http://www.gurl.com/findout/fastfacts/pages/0,,622679,00.html

http://www.api4animals.org/facts?p=434&more=1


http://www.api4animals.org/facts?p=435&more=1

http://www.idausa.org/facts/costesting.html

http://www.youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=2584

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_testing