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The 'Golden State' is 'golden' to animal advocates

(Winter 2001)— California is the first state in the nation to restrict the use of animals in testing of consumer goods such as cosmetics and household cleaners. The law, signed by Governor Gray Davis in September, requires testers of consumer products to use federally sanctioned non-animal, alternative toxicity testing methods. Medical research is exempt from the law that takes effect January 1, 2001.

The new law is a major victory for the millions of animals who suffer horribly in product testing. And it is a marked set-back to every vivisector currently profiting from either supplying these millions of animals or testing on them, who said it "couldn't be done." For nearly a decade, NEAVS has sponsored major research efforts into alternatives to toxicity testing in animals. As we reported in UPDATE (Fall/Winter 1999), nonanimal tests are actually proving better predictors of human toxicity than are the archaic and horrific animal tests.

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