EU Court Upholds Cosmetics Directive Ban On Animal Testing
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
The European Court of Justice rejected an appeal by France to block a provision in the Seventh Amendment to the Cosmetics Directive prohibiting the sale of cosmetics and ingredients tested on animals
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