Product Development and Drug Testing. To predict toxicity, corrosivity, and other safety variables as well as the effectiveness of new products, traditional testing of chemicals, consumer products, medical devices, and new drugs has involved the use of animals.r. Gerhard Zbinden, one of the world's leading toxicologists, once described a standard in vivo test as little more than âa ritual mass execution of animals.â The testing of just one substance alone, be it a potential drug or toxic chemical, can involve using up to 800 animals and cost over $6 million. [1].
Paleness should be distinguished from other causes of prominent white skin 1  : Fair skin is genetically determined skin hue with low concentration of skin pigment (melanin) in the skin.
Skin pigmentation disorders occur because the body produces either too much or too little melanin, a pigment that creates hair, skin, and eye color. Melanin protects the body by absorbing ultraviolet light. In hypopigmentation means the body does not produces enough melanin. Albinism, for example, is an inherited condition that causes a lack of pigment. So people with albinism typically have light skin, white or pale yellow hair, and light blue or gray eyes. Another condition called vitilgo, creates smooth, depigmented white spots on the skin.