Cosmetic Animal Testing
Have full or partial bans on cosmetics animal testing including all European Union countries Australia India Israel New Zealand Norway and South Korea. Animal testing of many cosmetic ingredients is now required in European Union due to new laws that override the cosmetic animal testing ban. Testing Cosmetics On Animals Meps Call For Worldwide Ban News European Parliament In India a national cosmetics animal testing ban was implemented in June 2014 and an import ban became effective in November 2014. Cosmetic animal testing . The European Chemicals Agency new REACH regulatory decision in August of 2020 requires some widely used cosmetic ingredients to be tested on animals to protect workers the environment and for uses outside cosmetics. The Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act regulated by the FDA prohibits the sale of mislabeled and adulterated cosmetics but does not require that animal tests be conducted to demonstrate that the cosmetics are safe. Please contact your legislators a...