Animals testing

Animal testing are experiments on living animals. Of these, 68% were mice, followed by rats with 13%. Fish made up 9.8% and birds' two percent. 0.04% of the test animals were cats, 0.1% monkeys and 0.1% dogs. Great apes =Menschenaffen are not used in experiments. The largest share of animal experiments is in the areas of "Research and development for products and devices for human, dental and veterinary medicine", "Production and quality control of products and devices for human and dental medicine". 740,000 animals were killed in Germany for scientific purposes last year. Another two million animals were used for scientific animal experiments.
What happens in the animal experiments?

Before a product such as a skin cream or nail polish is sold, some manufacturers test = Herstellertest, it beforehand on animals in a laboratory. Pregnant animals are also tested. Many animals die in these tests or are killed afterwards.

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