Editing Draize test (section)

===Pro-testing===
According to the British [[Research Defence Society]], the Draize eye test is now a "very mild test", in which small amounts of substances are used and are washed out of the eye at the first sign of irritation.<ref name="RDS">{{cite web
 |url=http://www.rds-online.org.uk/pages/page.asp?i_ToolbarID=4&i_PageID=149
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928111042/http://www.rds-online.org.uk/pages/page.asp?i_ToolbarID=4&i_PageID=149
 |archive-date=28 September 2007
 |title=Eye irritancy
 |author=Research Defence Society (RDS)
}}</ref> In a letter to ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'', written to refute an article saying that the Draize test had not changed much since the 1940s, [[Andrew Huxley]] wrote: "A substance expected from its chemical nature to be seriously painful must not be tested in this way; the test is permissible only if the substance has already been shown not to cause pain when applied to skin, and ''in vitro'' pre-screening tests are recommended, such as a test on an isolated and perfused eye. Permission to carry out the test on several animals is given only if the test has been performed on a single animal and a period of 24 hours has been allowed for injury to become evident."<ref>{{cite journal |author=Huxley A |title=Testing is necessary on animals as well as in vitro |journal=Nature |volume=439 |issue=7073 |page=138 |date=January 2006 |pmid=16407930 |doi=10.1038/439138b |bibcode=2006Natur.439Q.138H |doi-access=free }}</ref>