DEADLINE FOR THE EU’S ANIMAL TESTING BAN LOOMS – BUT WILL COSMETIC INDUSTRY’S ALTERNATIVE METHODS MAKE THE CUT?
January 1st, 2012
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
WITH the European Union (EU) quickly approaching the deadline for a full marketing ban on animal-tested cosmetics products, researchers and scientists worldwide are scrambling to develop new validated alternative methods to sell their products in the EU post-March , 2013. However, there are doubts within the scientific community that full, alternative methods will be developed on time.
The EU's cosmetics directive has ordered the phasing out of animal testing in personal and beauty products since September 2004, when a ban on animal testing of ...
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