User talk:Ermintrude

Animal Testing

I'm sorry I have not been able to find the time to help with that page. I have to complete a project for work tonight. I will try to look in after I get home from work on Friday. --JWSchmidt 23:43, 5 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"the Draize Eye Irritancy Test, involves putting drops of the substance in question into the eye of an albino rabbit" (source) I have personally worked with laboratory rabbits. I doubt that the rabbit shown in the Draize test article was actually used in a real eye irritancy test. It looks like someone painted dye around the eye of their pet rabbit and took a picture. If it is a picture of a laboratory animal, the person who provided the image to Wikipedia should be able to specify the laboratory, what substance was being tested and the date of the test. We could then independently verify if such a test actually took place. Without such independent verification, the image should not be used. --JWSchmidt 20:11, 7 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I left a comment at Talk:Draize test. --JWSchmidt 04:32, 8 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]