Isn cosmetics animal testing already banned?
A. In February 2003, the EU agreed a Europe-wide ban on cosmetics animal testing but it won’t come into effect in stages until 2009/2013. An EU ban on the sale of new animal tested cosmetics has also been agreed but a complete sales ban won’t come into effect until 2013 at the earliest. The UK and a few other countries have introduced a whole or partial ban on cosmetics animal testing, but animal testing for cosmetics continues in the rest of Europe and around the world. This means that consumers are presented with animal tested cosmetics in major high street stores across the country, despite confusing “not tested” claims on bottles, which usually only relate to testing of the final product and not, crucially, to the ingredients.
