CHINESE MANUFACTURERS MEET EU BAN ON ANIMAL TESTS
March 1st, 2009
BY WANG FANGQING
CHINESE manufacturers have told Soap Perfumery & Cosmetics they see no threat in the newly-effective ban, under the European Union's (EU) revised cosmetics directive (76/768/EEC), on all the animal tested cosmetics and personal care products sold in the EU.
In fact, such demands are not new to the Chinese cosmetics suppliers, given most have long-term business relations with clients from Australia and New Zealand, who have been requiring products free from animal tests for over a decade.
"The ban won't affect our business because we ...
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