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Canada Moving Toward Cosmetic Animal-Testing Ban Potentially Stricter Than California Law

 
• By Ryan Nelson

The Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, S 214, would ban the sale of cosmetics developed with animal testing that’s conducted four years or more after enactment, ostensibly including testing undertaken to comply with foreign regulations. The sole exemption is for animal testing that is Health Canada-authorized.

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Proposed legislation to ban animal-tested cosmetics in Canada raises some of the same uncertainties that California’s Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act did before late-stage, industry-driven amendments addressed the bill’s most problematic elements.

Introduced in December 2015 by Conservative Senator Carolyn Stewart Olsen,

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