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- From: russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence)
- Subject: Re: Anti-AR movie goers - Please read
- Message-ID: <BxzH73.CpF@wpg.com>
- Organization: WP Group
- References: <swood.722197641@vela>
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:01:49 GMT
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- russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence) writes:
- rl> From Vogue magazine (November, 1990):
- rl>
- rl> "Though neither the FDA nor the Consumer Product Safety
- rl> Commission requires animal testing before a consumer product or
- rl> cosmetic goes on the market....."
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- From article <swood.722197641@vela>, by swood@phoebe.acs.oakland.edu (Scott Wood - EVENSONG):
- sw> Well then, how about their insurance companies that give them
- sw> liability coverage or the court system in general? I would
- sw> imagine that the existance of both would financially mandate any
- sw> and all possible testing for human safety.
-
- Please explain how/why an unmodified draize test is superior to the
- cam test or eytex or [insert list of alternatives].
-
- The fact of the matter is that Revlon, Avon, and Estee Lauder aren't
- the only companies that have abandoned animal testing in favor of
- alternative methodologies. One list of such companies that I recently
- examined contained roughly four hundred names.
-
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- Russell Lawrence, WP Group, New Orleans (504) 443-5000
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