ANIMAL TESTING SUMMARY
January 1st, 2003 BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE AGREEMENT of a seventh amendment to the European Union's directive 76/768/EEC on cosmetic products, which addresses the thorny issue of animal testing, brings to an end three years of debates on the current proposals, but actually is the result of a decade of often bitter discussion. Formal proposals were made in 1994, 1996 and 1997, which came to nothing.The key bugbear in reaching a deal has been the creation of the World Trade Organisation and its allied Uruguay Round General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. This prevents countries from ...
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