EU ANIMAL TESTS REDUCTION CAMPAIGN – LABORATORY ANIMAL WELFARE
June 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has launched a three-pronged attack on using animals to test cosmetics, notably by releasing formal guidelines on labelling claiming products were tested in other ways. Participating manufacturers, whose products could gain a significant marketing boost from these labels, must follow common criteria to make such claims. Moreover, said a Commission statement, a company "that chose to have this labelling must be able to prove the reality of the absence of animal testing."
The initiative comes as the Commission has ...
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