On 17 January 1981 in its 8th newsletter the NZAVS recommended that the Rawleigh Company products were ethically acceptable to the discriminating purchaser... i.e. the NZAVS member.

In the past few months NZAVS and the Rawleigh Company have undertaken investigation involving lengthy discussions and correspondence, not only on testing methods of finished products but on the content and testing procedures of the raw materials.

In summing up, the NZAVS is pleased to reaffirm that the Rawleigh Company does not test its products on animals. It was determined however, after discussions between the General Manager of Rawleigh in Wellington and their NZ chemists, and their subsequent investigation into methods and procedures of their U.S. Parent Company, that the raw materials in some of the Rawleigh products are subjected to animal tests prior to purchase by their company.

As the international regulations demand the Lethal Dose 50 test for many raw materials it is clear that the anti-vivisectionists' attack must be directed at the LD50 procedure and not at a company, such as Rawleigh, who can give us definite assurances that their finished products are not and never have been subject to animal tests.

During NZAVS time-consuming dialogue with the Rawleigh Company our probes and insistences have been accepted with a forthright and courteous attitude of cooperation.

It is with gratitude and appreciation that NZAVS accepts three samples of the Rawleigh Company products for our Society's raffle to the value of one hundred dollars.

Polio vaccine

Whilst we have a tremendous sympathy for the victims of the contaminated polio vaccine and wrote a supportive letter to Truth for revealing the facts, our sympathies are also with the one million monkeys shipped from their wild state during the last 25 years to have their kidneys surgically removed to make culture medium for production of polio vaccines.

In 1960 Prof. Leonard Hayflick of the Microbiology Department of Stanford University introduced a polio vaccine cultivated on human cell cultures capable of producing enough vaccine to last the world forever.

Evidence shows that vaccines are dangerous for humans - disastrous for animals - and that millions of people are now seeking alternative methods of health protection.

"This is the dose that made fifty per cent of a sample of scientists die of frustration."