Contact Your Congressional Representatives

Please contact your U.S. representative and senators and explain to them that there is no reason for federal agencies’ continuing to require the use of animal-test methods for skin absorption, skin irritation, skin corrosion, phototoxicity, and pyrogenicity tests. Other member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have replaced these tests with non-animal methods. Ask your representative and senators to urge the following agencies to do the same—please note that different agencies have different testing requirements, as indicated in parentheses:

Environmental Protection Agency (skin corrosion, skin absorption, and skin irritation)
Food and Drug Administration (skin absorption, skin irritation, phototoxicity, and pyrogenicity)
Department of Transportation (skin corrosion)
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (skin absorption)
Consumer Product Safety Commission (skin irritation)
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (skin absorption)

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