E.U. Bans Cosmetics With Animal-Tested Ingredients

[menotu]

Although it's been known about  for some time it's great to see the ban actually come into force
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By James Kantner - March 11, 2013 - nytimes

BRUSSELS — European Union regulators announced a ban Monday on the import and sale of cosmetics containing ingredients tested on animals and to pledge more efforts to push other parts of the world, like China, to accept alternatives.

The ban, which will take effect immediately, “gives an important signal on the value that Europe attaches to animal welfare,” Tonio Borg, the E.U. commissioner for health and consumer policy, said in a statement.

The European Union banned animal testing of finished cosmetic products in 2004. A second ban, on animal-tested ingredients, went into effect four years ago. But heavy lobbying by major cosmetics manufacturers resulted in an extension of the deadline for some tests for effects like allergies and cancer and for which there is still no substitute.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/business/global/eu-to-ban-cosmetics-with-animal-tested-ingredients.html?_r=0

[Bald Brick]

What about testing on humans? Are humans considered animals?

In this case I hope not....

[bicol_willem]

All in favor of that but how to check this 

Stickers "no animals tested to create this product" doesn´t do it after beef became horse meat ...

[µT6]

usually animals used on this tests end with no eyes, ears, skin and with weird extensive wounds

the idea of use animals to test such products is avoid people ending like those animals but if those animals end that bad before being sacrificed, such products should be just banned completely, not just choose what can be tested on where

some products are made for medical purposes too but what are they testing, what chemicals are they using

now, if a human let that happen to him/her voluntarily, well, what can i say there?