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DESCRIPTION:World Lab Animal Day, which falls on this Thursday, April 24, is a day to 
 remember the countless animals who are confined in laboratories across the 
 world and subjected to severe pain and suffering in the name of 
 "scientific" and product research. \n\nEach year millions of animals die in 
 commercial laboratories around the world. Hundreds of thousands of these 
 tests are for common household ingredients or products – home or personal 
 products that people buy every day. Paint, polish, soap, detergents, 
 cosmetics, air fresheners, foods with additives and many other items are 
 tested on animals.\n  \nCommercial product or ingredient tests are 
 conducted in secret. A paint test leaked to Animal Defenders International 
 (ADI) revealed how rats were restrained and forced to inhale paint fumes. 
 Imagine what that would be like, unable to move and having to breathe heavy 
 paint fumes for hours. Within three hours half the animals were dead, and 
 the others were close to death.\n \nMany U.S. companies continue to test on 
 animals, even though such tests are not required by any U.S. government 
 agency. The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) 
 reported that in 2006, 1,012,713 animals were used in research. However, 
 according to the Animal Welfare Act and the Code of Federal Regulations, 
 that figure excludes the use of birds, rats, mice, fish, reptiles, 
 amphibians and other cold-blooded animals.\n\nIn 1998, after years of 
 campaigning, ADI secured a ban on testing cosmetics on animals in England. 
 Five years later, with public support, Europe confirmed it would also phase 
 out all testing of cosmetics on animals. \n\nWith your help, we can end 
 these tests in the U.S.!\n\nIn honor of World Lab Animal Day, Animal 
 Defenders International will be setting up an information table for 
 passers-by at Justin Herman Plaza from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. We’ll be handing 
 out information about animal research, non-animal research methods and 
 lists of animal and non-animal tested products. \n\nIf you would like to 
 join us and help pass out flyers around the Plaza, please call Jennifer 
 Blum at (415)902-5763 or just come down and look for our table. \n\nHope to 
 see you there! These animals need our voices!\n\nWhat: World Lab Animal 
 Day\n\nWhen: April 24, 2008, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.\n\nWhy: To distribute 
 information about animal research and non-animal research methods\n\nWho: 
 Animal Defenders International\n\nWhere: Justin Herman Plaza, 1 Market 
 Street, San Francisco, at the foot of Market Street at the Embarcadero, 
 just behind the Hyatt Regency Hotel\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/22/18494571.php
SUMMARY:World Lab Animal Day information table
LOCATION:Justin Herman Plaza, 1 Market Street, San Francisco, at the foot of Market 
 Street at the Embarcadero, just behind the Hyatt Regency Hotel
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/22/18494571.php
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