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Consumer Safety and Animal Welfare
The Clorox Company is committed to providing consumers with products they can trust when used as directed. Before reaching market, our products undergo rigorous safety testing and careful evaluations by highly qualified, skilled scientists. Using nonanimal product safety evaluations is the norm at Clorox and animal testing is the exception — the vast majority of our products reach the market without testing on animals.
Our commitment to animal welfare is underscored by company policy
- We do not conduct or cause third-parties to conduct any animal testing on products, raw materials or components of finished products unless required by federal or local regulators.
- We will not license our name or the name of any of our brands to formulations of products that have been tested on animals.
- We will not acquire or purchase product formulations or other products for use in our consumer products that have been tested on animals (except when such testing was done to meet the requirements of federal, state, local or other applicable regulations).
The rare exception to this policy is only when all other efforts have been exhausted to establish a product's safety profile; such exceptions require senior management approval, certifying there is no other way to proceed. In those rare instances, Clorox will conduct appropriate safety testing at an independent laboratory accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC). AAALAC promotes standards of animal welfare that exceed federal law and conducts regular inspections of their accredited laboratories.
We're committed to a future without animal testing
We're working toward a future where animal testing has no role in product development. We believe that we should be able to use existing data and alternatives so animals are not harmed. We are engaging regulators to join with us to identify and implement innovative solutions that eliminate the existing requirements to conduct animal testing, without compromising product safety. In collaboration with industry partners, we're working to foster new protocols and encourage regulatory acceptance of alternatives to conventional animal testing, particularly in the area of public health disinfectant products. Since 1987, we have been working with organizations such as the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing and the Institute for In Vitro Sciences, an independent foundation, to develop alternative testing methods.
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