Animal tests are often horrifying. Laboratory workers place products in the eyes of restrained rabbits who are unable to rub their eyes or otherwise give themselves any relief. Rabbits have a poor system for flushing irritants from their eyes, which allows products to remain and do damage. Highly concentrated products are also applied to the bare skin of shaved rodents. This often results in severe burning or ulceration of the skin.
Workers also force feed animals enormous quantities of products until half of all the animals die.
No, it does not. It is well known that substances which are harmless to one species can be toxic to even closely related species. Even when animal tests do show that products are dangerous, this does not keep the product off the market. The harmful products simply bear warning labels telling people to call a doctor if they swallow the product or if contact is made with the skin or eyes. However, poison-control centers rarely, if ever, turn to data from animal tests to treat patients injured by household products.