Our Opinion

Calgon Carbon Corporation is on the Cruelty Free Investing list for exploiting animals because the company does animal testing for some of their chemicals.

Supporting Evidence:

The following document cites that “The company has animal infectivity experiments were also conducted to ascertain the levels of inactivation demonstrated by in vitro assays and to provide further evidence for the correlation between in vitro methods and neonatal mouse infectivity, following oocyst exposure to UV light.” (Page 3) Read the full document.

Company Description

Calgon Carbon Corp. manufactures and supplies activated carbon. The company also provides reactivation, and application of activated carbon, ballast water treatment, ultraviolet light disinfection, and advanced ion-exchange technologies. Its technologies are applied by customers for the treatment of drinking water, wastewater, ballast water, air emissions and a variety of industrial and commercial manufacturing processes. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Moon Township, PA. [Source: MarketWatch]

Company Website: http://www.calgoncarbon.com