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Regulatory Acceptance Of Non-Animal Test Methods Holding Back Cosmetics Innovation

 
• By Lauren Nardella

“Companies can innovate right now, and they have confidence in these tools, these [non-animal] approaches, and they feel they can put these products on the market safely,” said Erin Hill, CEO and president of the International Collaboration on Cosmetics Safety. “The holdup is that they can’t register these new products, because there’s a lack of confidence in the regulatory community.”

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The European Union’s ban on cosmetic animal-testing more than a decade ago under the Cosmetic Product Regulation raised questions about the industry’s innovation future.

To this day, alternative testing approaches for assessing certain complex safety endpoints have yet to be developed or validated. According...

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