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

 
• By Suzanne Blecher

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.

As Europe moves toward a full animal-testing ban for cosmetic products beginning in March 2013, other countries around the globe are making strides of their own to phase out animal testing in favor of alternative strategies.

Effective Jan. 1, the import, marketing and sale of cosmetics, toiletries and detergents tested on animals is banned in Israel. The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) passed the law in 2010, three...

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• By David Ridley

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• By Natasha Barrow

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• By David Ridley

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• By David Ridley

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• By David Ridley

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