What does EWG think about animal testing?
Ideally, a consumer could find safer products that were not tested on animals. Unfortunately, research shows that many products use ingredients that are linked to cancer, birth defects, and other disorders and health hazards, posing risk for people, pets, and in wildlife . Our research also reveals that over 99 percent of products contain ingredients that have not been assessed for safety by the government, the cosmetic industry’s safety panel, or any other publicly accountable institution. It is an important question — how do we protect human, environmental, and animal health, while reducing unnecessary testing? EWG supports uses of non-animal testing methods where available and effective. We also support initiatives to fund research on alternative, non-animal health and safety testing. Unfortunately, for now there are safety studies crucial to measuring the safety of chemicals that harm the environment, wildlife, pets and public health, for which there are no reliable alternative stu
Ideally, a consumer could find a safer product that wasn’t tested on animals. Unfortunately, research shows that many products use ingredients that are linked to cancer, birth defects, and other disorders and health hazards… not just for people and our pets, but in wildlife and the environment as well. Our research also reveals that over 99 percent of products contain ingredients that have not been assessed for safety the government, the industry’s safety panel, or any other publicly accountable institution. It is an important question – how do we protect human, environmental, and animal health, while reducing unnecessary testing? EWG supports uses of non-animal testing methods where available and effective. We also support initiatives that call for funding toward animal testing alternatives research. Unfortunately, for now there are safety studies crucial to measuring the toxicity of chemicals impacting environmental, wildlife, and public health, for which there no known alternative
