# Talk to me about artificial flavorings - how and why? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 5, 2002, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-artificial-flavorings-how-and-why/112448 "2002-06-05T04:55:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-artificial-flavorings-how-and-why/112448/21 "2002-06-07T03:48:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by mnemosyne \* > \*\*Just to point something out - it is ridiculously complicated to obtain permission to test something on animals - there is YEARS of paperwork and pre-animal-testing testing to be done to ensure consistent product yields, lack of foreign (unwanted) components, etc before you can even consider sending it out to animal trials. And then more years before human clinical trials. A LOT of what gets made (be it flavour or other drug products) never even make it to animal testing. And even once its there, and even once its on the market, the producing companies still check batch after batch of the stuff to make sure that it continues to meet the standards that they and the FDA have set - because the moment it doesn’t, it gets pulled from the market. > > Anyways, sorry that was off topic, but its something I know something about, so I just had to share 🙂 \*\* Uh, not to jump on you, but tox screening is NOT done under GLP; force-feeding a handful of mice is a far cry from a full preclinical protocol, and doesn’t require much in the way of permission; artificial flavors are NOT drugs; and most of this work never gets submitted to FDA. Nothing that needs to be submitted gets done until you already know what the answer is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-to-me-about-artificial-flavorings-how-and-why/112448.md?page=1)