We care for the health and wellbeing of all creatures great and small. So we fully support the elimination of inhumane animal testing. We verify the safety and efficacy of our products only on human volunteers and via in-vitro means rather than through animal testing in virtually all markets, including all of North America, South America, Europe and Australia. We consider the use of product testing on animals unnecessary given the many viable alternatives available to us at this time. The only cases in which such testing may occur on our products is in the rare circumstances when another government’s regulators mandate such steps during their registration processes. But we fully support further development of alternatives to animal testing and the continuing efforts of advocates on this issue in the hope that local authorities in those few foreign entities who continue to utilise animal testing protocols can be persuaded to change their course. That’s why we’re also a contributor to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) where a great deal of pioneering research has been done in the development of alternative test methods.