EU REACH Analysis Corroborates Animal Welfare View: Testing Continues For Cosmetics-Only Ingredients

13 Sep 2021

• By Lauren Nardella

A multi-stakeholder analysis of REACH data revealed that while animal testing of cosmetic ingredients dropped dramatically after March 2013 when the Cosmetic Products Regulation’s marketing ban on animal-tested ingredients was fully implemented, the practice did not cease altogether.

Small experimental mouse is on the laboratory researcher's hand

Animal tests on cosmetic-only ingredients to satisfy requirements under Europe’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals law will become only more frequent, researchers suggest.

According to a report published on 18 August in Switzerland-based, peer-reviewed journal ALTAX: Alternatives to Animal Experimentation, an analysis...