Cosmetic Animal-Testing Regs Tighten Around Globe, Per EU’s Example

With Europe’s full animal-testing ban for cosmetic products slated for March, activist groups are now turning up pressure on Brazil, India and China to institute or improve animal-welfare laws. As of Jan. 1, Israel has outlawed the import of cosmetics tested on animals, so that the state “possibly become[s] the world’s first cruelty-free cosmetics market,” Humane Society International notes.