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Ipsen Ltd.
190 Bath Road
SL1 3XE Slough
UK
Suggested text for your letter:
Dear Sir/Madam I was shocked to learn that your company conducts cruel animal experiments for the batch testing of your product Dysport®. As you know, for the LD50 test, groups of mice are injected with different doses of the substance in the abdomen. The mice are subjected to terrible pain. They suffer from paralysis, impaired vision and respiratory distress. After up to three or four days of suffering they finally die of suffocation or are killed just before this (as may sometimes happen). Although the European Pharmacopoeia lists this test for every batch of botulinum toxin, there is an alternative test that does not use live animals which is allowed. It is in your hands to use this alternative method. I urge you to cooperate with the other manufacturers of botulinum toxin products to achieve a deletion of the mouse LD50 test in the European Pharmacopoeia. Until I am assured that you are no longer using the LD50 test, I will encourage all my friends not to use your botox products. I look forward to hearing from you. Yours sincerely