EU animal testing
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Council of Ministers adopts Seventh Amendment to the Cosmetics Directive banning animal testing on cosmetics. Legislation, passed during the Council's Jan. 27-28 meeting, is in line with joint text agreed upon in conciliation with European Parliament, which passed the amendment Jan. 15. Long-debated marketing/testing ban passed conciliation in November prohibiting testing of cosmetics on animals immediately when alternative methods are available and imposing a six-year deadline for most tests when validated alternatives are not yet available (1"The Rose Sheet" Nov. 25, 2002, p. 6)...
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