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California’s Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act Makes New Ingredients Officially Endangered

 
• By Ryan Nelson

It’s debatable the extent to which SB 1249, now headed to the governor’s desk, will improve animals’ lot, but cosmetic ingredient innovation is almost certain to suffer. Industry could escalate efforts behind alternative methods development, or there’s another possible solution: federal preemption.

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California’s Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act could shut down use of new cosmetic ingredients in the US, accelerate development of alternative methods, spur federal regulatory reform, counterintuitively lead to more animal testing, or virtually any combination thereof.

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