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California’s Advancing Cosmetic Animal-Test Ban Poses Liabilities, Industry Says

 
• By Lauren Nardella

Universities and other accredited labs often test cosmetic ingredients on animals to assess potential health risks without manufacturers’ involvement or even their knowledge. Under a proposed bill advancing in California, such studies could render companies that use those ingredients non-compliant and subject to fines.

Laboratory mouse on the researcher's hand

California’s Senate has approved legislation that would bar products from the state’s cosmetics market if they or their ingredients are tested on animals after Jan. 1, 2020, raising liability concerns among industry champions who see the bill’s exemptions as inadequate.

“To place liability on a manufacturer to pull products from sale in California the moment an ingredient is tested on an animal, regardless of the conclusion of the test or the manufacturers’ knowledge of the testing,

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