In Reply to: Re: Imperial Chemical Industries ?? posted by Geoff Paddock on January 07, 1997 at 22:03:46:
Someone called Sue wrote:
> > I remember reading articles about ICI carrying out experiments
> > on live animals at its site at Alderley Edge in Cheshire during the
> > 1980's. Do ICI still carry out animal experiments there or elsewhere?
> > And if so, what do you test and why?Geoff Paddock, a press office for ICI said;
> Animal testing, whether one likes it or not, is a legal requirement,I don't think that that is strictly true - the legal requirement for testing
depends on the intended use of the product. Further more, when testing is
required it is meant to ensure that there is no danger to humans.
Animal testing is not the only way this can be done and infact the
use of animal testing doesn't seem to have prevented the pharaceutical and
chemicals industry from causing great harm to people and the environment.> and although ICI's needs were drastically reduced following the demerger
> of our bioscience businesses in 1993, we are still obliged to carry out
> the smallest number of tests necessary to make sure that our products
> are safe.You haven't actualy answered the question Sue asked.
Which ICI products (or ingrediants) are tested?