Draize-Test

The Draize eye irritation test is applied since 1944 animal testing in toxicity determination, in which the substance to be tested is placed in the Lidsack a rabbit eye. That is why it is also called rabbit eye test. It is used to test a possible irritant effects of chemicals on the eye. Substances which should be regarded as corrosive due to extreme pH values ​​or on the basis of an appropriate finding of a skin irritation test shall not be used in this test.

The test is - not only in animal experiments opponents - highly controversial. It was largely replaced by the hen's egg test on the chorioallantoic membrane ( HET -CAM). Even with the Spanish slug is an equivalent animal model available, which also carries a legal point of invoice.

Namesake of the tests is the American toxicologist John Henry Draize (1900-1992), who developed this test in 1944.