Addressing legislative gaps, increasing transparency, and exploring technological alternatives to animal testing can address and reduce international and domestic discrepancies in animal welfare treatment. That said, the bans are not all-encompassing, and where alternative testing methods are not available, animal testing may still be required under the REACH Regulation. Neuralink and Animal TestingThis limited legal framework for animal welfare in the United States can foment situations where the line between animal testing and unnecessary animal cruelty blurs further. Animal Testing in the Cosmetics Industry in ChinaThe usage of animal testing in avant-garde companies like Neuralink may make the practice seem more uncommon and detached from the average consumer than it truly is. Adopting more common practices about which countries allow animal testing and the sales of given products may eliminate barriers in an age of such intense globalization.