The deadline for passing legislation banning the marketing of cosmetics tested on animals in the European Union is quickly approaching with the second meeting of the conciliation committee scheduled Nov. 6

The deadline for passing legislation banning the marketing of cosmetics tested on animals in the European Union is quickly approaching with the second meeting of the conciliation committee scheduled Nov. 6

Proposed legislation to ban sale of new cosmetic products and ingredients tested on animals in EU if validated alternative exists has moved to conciliation phase after Oct. 7 meeting in which European Parliament and EU Council of Ministers were unable to find common ground. Tentative Nov. 6 meeting will be deadline for developing compromise text agreement between Parliament, council and European Commission. Draft expected to address how to produce alternatives to animal testing, means by which those tests can be validated and "on whose authority and what message would be approved for validating." In Parliament's second reading of the Seventh Amendment of the Cosmetics Directive June 11, legislators voted in favor of including a marketing ban in the directive (1"The Rose Sheet" June 17, 2002, p. 3)...