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The council finds as follows:

A. The Draize Test or ocular test determines the irritancy level of substances by applying them to the eyes of immobilized, unanesthetized live animals, generally rabbits. The Skin Irritancy Test determines the irritancy level of substances by applying them to the shaved, abraded skin of unanesthetized animals, generally rabbits.

B. The Draize Test and Skin Irritancy Test are scientifically unsound and inapplicable to clinical situations. Reliance on the tests may be dangerous because animal data cannot be reliably extrapolated to humans.

C. There is a need to encourage nonanimal test alternatives to the Draize Test and the Skin Irritancy Test so as to further human health concerns and to protect animals.

D. Currently, there exist at least a dozen effective nonanimal test alternatives to the Draize Test and the Skin Irritancy Test, many of which are already successfully in use by fifty-nine California corporations.

E. The Draize Test and the Skin Irritancy Test are unnecessary and grossly inhumane. (Ord. 6027-NS § 1, 1991)