in the past or have been proven safe in normal use.

Such companies may state accurately that their products have not been tested on animals.  But it would be misleading if they claimed that the ingredients had never been tested on animals.

What if we halted research using animals today?

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• New ways of repairing congenital heart and other defects would have to be abandoned or tested on humans.
• A cure for diabetes would be much less likely.
• The chances of finding an effective and safe cure for AIDS would be greatly reduced.
• Work on techniques to treat paralysis in people with spinal cord injury would have to cease.
• Development of new surgical techniques would be greatly inhibited.
• There would be little hope of a normal lifespan for the one in 400 young Australians and New Zealanders who have cystic fibrosis.
• Cures for schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease would be put back decades - or possibly forever.
• The development of urgently needed new drugs to treat heart disease, cancer and a host of other diseases would be severely restricted.
• It would be very difficult to develop drugs for new diseases, or find new cures for old diseases like tuberculosis which have developed resistance to available drugs.
• It would be too dangerous to test exciting new products like artificial blood, which shows promise for saving the lives of critically injured accident victims.

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