This document discusses the potential for plant-based toxicity screening as an alternative to animal testing in drug development. It summarizes that: 1) Current animal testing for drug safety is costly, time-consuming, and raises ethical issues, while cell culture methods are unreliable. 2) The company, 3R Laboratories, aims to improve drug safety and reduce animal experiments through predictive toxicology using plant models. 3) Their plant respiration test could provide a reproducible, sensitive way to rank compounds by toxicity and help pharmaceutical companies avoid costly drug failures in clinical trials.