Looking for corrections - Animal testing Animal testing All industries use animals some way to have its products. Sometimes, the use of animals is inevitable, but there are cases that the use can be decreased or avoid. One case of inevitable use is in pharmaceutical industries. Unfortunately, there is no other way to have a confident product but to use animal testing. For a drug to be available to consumers is needed to make a lot of tests, which are divided into stages. The first stage is the test in cells cultures, if the drug does not affect the cells, there is the second stage, which is the animal testing. Then, there is the third and last stage, the human testing. Some people argue that cell culture would be enough for drug testing, but sadly the use of cell culture is not enough to figured out all interaction in the body, which is a system with many and too complex factors. Otherhand, the use of animals in cosmetic industry can decreased and avoided. Normally, when a company make a new product is needed make animal testing depending on the legislation of the country. Now, imagine the amount of news lipsticks, creams, perfumes and others products launched in a year and that for each new product is necessary to make an animal testing. It is a lot of animals for each product, is not it? Well, usually the components used has been already tested in others formulations and in this case the animal study for the ingredient does not have to be repeated. The EU, for example, banned the animal testing in cosmetic products and their ingredients sold in the EU. Therefore, the use of animals sometimes is important, but in the case of cosmetics it can be avoided due the amount of date and available research. If all countries had the same position that EU, we would have a huge decreased in this kind of test and it would be possible prevent unnecessary suffering of animals.