Introduced in 1927, the LD50 test determines the dose of a substance that kills 50% of test animals. Millions of rodents died in these tests annually before the OECD adopted fixed-dose and up-and-down procedures in the 2000s that dramatically reduced animal numbers while maintaining regulatory safety standards.

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