European Union Cosmetic Testing Deadline Fast Approaching
September 18, 2008—
The Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics (CCIC) is eagerly awaiting the upcoming deadline to end animal testing established in 2004, when the European Union (EU) passed the seventh amendment of the Cosmetics Directive. This law sets a series of deadlines for animal testing bans and bans on the sale of cosmetics containing animal tested ingredients.
On March 11, 2009, the EU will:
The EU cosmetic testing law will have an enormous impact on the cosmetics industry both in the EU and abroad as the law sets specific deadlines not just for the production but also for the sale of products that have been tested on animals or contain animal-tested ingredients. In today's global economy, companies based in the United States and Canada depend on profits from their European markets. This dependence will inevitably require these companies to more aggressively pursue non-animal alternatives for product testing.
The CCIC urges companies to join us in committing to end the use of animal tests ahead of this March deadline. Companies certified through the Leaping Bunny Program make a voluntary pledge to eliminate animal testing from all stages of product development. The company's ingredient suppliers make the same pledge and the result is a product guaranteed to be 100 percent free of new animal testing.
The Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics is made up of the following organizations: American Anti-Vivisection Society, American Humane Association, Beauty Without Cruelty, USA, Doris Day Animal League, The Humane Society of the United States, and the New England Anti-Vivisection Society. CCIC’s international partners are Animal Alliance of Canada and European Coalition to End Animal Experiments. On the web at www.LeapingBunny.org.
For more information, contact the CCIC at (888)546-CCIC or admin@LeapingBunny.org.
September 18, 2008—
The Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics (CCIC) is eagerly awaiting the upcoming deadline to end animal testing established in 2004, when the European Union (EU) passed the seventh amendment of the Cosmetics Directive. This law sets a series of deadlines for animal testing bans and bans on the sale of cosmetics containing animal tested ingredients.
On March 11, 2009, the EU will:
- Ban animal testing of cosmetic ingredients or formulations in the EU; and
- Ban marketing of cosmetic products and ingredients tested on animals for all but three test areas, repeated-dose toxicity, reproductive toxicity, and toxicokinetics, regardless of availability of non-animal alternatives.
The EU cosmetic testing law will have an enormous impact on the cosmetics industry both in the EU and abroad as the law sets specific deadlines not just for the production but also for the sale of products that have been tested on animals or contain animal-tested ingredients. In today's global economy, companies based in the United States and Canada depend on profits from their European markets. This dependence will inevitably require these companies to more aggressively pursue non-animal alternatives for product testing.
The CCIC urges companies to join us in committing to end the use of animal tests ahead of this March deadline. Companies certified through the Leaping Bunny Program make a voluntary pledge to eliminate animal testing from all stages of product development. The company's ingredient suppliers make the same pledge and the result is a product guaranteed to be 100 percent free of new animal testing.
The Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics is made up of the following organizations: American Anti-Vivisection Society, American Humane Association, Beauty Without Cruelty, USA, Doris Day Animal League, The Humane Society of the United States, and the New England Anti-Vivisection Society. CCIC’s international partners are Animal Alliance of Canada and European Coalition to End Animal Experiments. On the web at www.LeapingBunny.org.
For more information, contact the CCIC at (888)546-CCIC or admin@LeapingBunny.org.