by Martin Shung

Created on: November 28, 2009

Almost all animal testing does not hurt the environment. If you search up guidelines for animal testing, you will find strict guidelines telling you about how a procedure should be made. Every state requires the testing to remove harmful chemicals to the environment. Many people think that they just throw it out in the garbage disposal. The truth is, that laboratory trash is tested and harmful chemicals are taken out before taking the rest to the dumb.

Take a picture of our planet and look at it. Almost everything we use comes from it.The chemicals used in animal testing are just natural substances that we use for our own good! In other words, you can't say that unnatural substances are released into the air because its part of nature and is what should be considered natural. Eventually, they would be released into the atmosphere anyways.

Scientific guidelines for testing of any kind is taken seriously by experimental scientists. In these guidelines, scientists are required to minimize any sort of poisonous chemicals released and even when it is released, it only stays inside the labratory.

Lets say that there is research that must be done urgently. Now testing on humans and other animals are a completely seperate thing. Humans can walk everywhere after their testing, so no dangerous chemicals can be used on them, but animals don't go anywhere. After their testing, the chemicals can stay with them so that nothing harmful gets into the enviroment. I can assure you, that the government has taken this into thought and with the pressure of anti-animal testers, they force very strict guidelines on how chemicals are not released into the atmosphere recklessly.

Here is a fraction of the animal testing guidelines:

"Appropriate approval for the use of hazardous agents (radioactive materials, recombinant DNA/RNA, human/plant/animal pathogens, acute toxins, chemical carcinogens, ethers) must be filed with the ACC before the project begins. Brief descriptions of the potential health risks to humans or animals, special animal care required, precautions for personnel, special containment requirements, specific storage, waste, and animal disposal requirements, and emergency procedures must be provided as part of the protocol form or in an appended copy of the approval application."

Note that the scientists must check with the ACC before actually engaging with the animal test procedures. ACC is an organization that is tough on animal testing. Many people in this organization is against testing and would immediately reject the procudure if even a hint of harming the enviroment was being felt. You can certainly count on them to make sure the enviroment will not be harmed.

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