"In New Zealand only blowflies...!"

Facts:

"Approximately 90% of LD50 tests performed at hutingdon contract laboratories are purely to meet various legislative needs..."
- R. Heywood in the LD50 test, Evidence for Submission to the Home Office Advisory Committee, prepared by the Committee for the Reform of Animal Experimentation, August 1977.

• At Toxicol laboratories, herefordshire 70% of testing is carried out for overseas markets...
• At Hazleton laboratories, yorkshire the majority of tests are to meet the requirements of overseas regulatory bodies...
• It is expected soon that an eec document on single dose toxicity testing will be released soon...

Lethal dose..
Single dose...
Approximate dose....

Overpowering evidence proves that it is dangerous to public health to use the living animal to "test" a substance...

The NZAVS asks the New Zealand regulatory bodies to make humane history by abandoning all demands for toxicity tests on animals

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