Animal Testing Alternatives

ICCS: Global beauty majors and NGOs launch animal-free science collective

08-Feb-2023 By Kacey Culliney

A group of 35 beauty manufacturers, suppliers, industry associations and animal welfare groups have established a global collective to advance animal-free safety assessments in cosmetics worldwide.

Dove makes last push on European Citizens’ Initiative to protect EU animal testing ban

26-Aug-2022 By Kacey Culliney

Unilever-owned international beauty brand Dove is making a final push to inspire more European consumers to align on protecting the EU’s ban on animal testing in cosmetics.

OECD non-animal skin sensitisation guideline a ‘landmark’ move – agency heads

09-Nov-2021 By Kacey Culliney

The publication of defined approaches to in silico skin sensitisation chemical assessment is a landmark moment for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) with significant implications for an animal-free future, say agency leaders.

European Parliament votes for EU-wide plan to phase out animal testing

16-Sep-2021 By Kacey Culliney

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have adopted a resolution vote calling on the European Commission to establish an EU-wide action plan to actively phase out animal experiments – a move that adds weight to the cosmetics industry’s fight to protect...

The Body Shop and Dove bring ‘scale and size’ to EU push to protect cosmetics animal testing ban – execs

06-Sep-2021 By Kacey Culliney

The Body Shop and Dove combining their scale and size brings a collective power to push forward calls to protect the EU’s existing animal testing ban on cosmetics, company executives say.

French exemptions on China animal testing a ‘template for other countries to follow’, says P&G

03-Feb-2021 By Kacey Culliney

The move by France to provide a government platform enabling beauty manufacturers to qualify for exemptions when exporting general-use cosmetics to China should carve out a path for other countries to follow, says a Procter & Gamble executive.

Guest Article

Cruelty-free cosmetics: Are we getting closer to a global animal testing ban?

29-Jan-2021 By Tjaša Grum, CE.way Regulatory Consultants

The list of countries with animal testing bans in place for cosmetics is growing, but how close is industry to reaching the EU Parliament’s goal of a blanket global ban by 2023?

Beauty must ‘build those bridges’ with ECHA to spur acceptance of animal-free testing, says expert

26-Nov-2020 By Kacey Culliney

The cosmetics industry has heavily invested in advancing non-animal safety testing methods, now efforts must turn to driving regulatory acceptance of these next-generation alternatives, says the founder of animal-free testing lab XCellR8.

Beauty majors sign joint statement claiming EU animal testing ban is 'being undermined' by ECHA

10-Nov-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Procter & Gamble, Unilever, L’Oréal and Avon are among signatories of an open statement claiming the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) and its Board of Appeal is undermining the EU animal testing ban on cosmetics - a claim the agency refutes.

Animal testing declines across EU – cosmetics must ‘share good practice’, says charity

24-Feb-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Animal testing for scientific purposes across the European Union has declined in recent years and cosmetics is in a strong position to share advances made with in-vitro alternatives, says UK medical research charity FRAME.

Skin deep: Biotech start-up sees need for more ethnic Asian skin test models

23-Dec-2019 By Amanda Lim

A Singapore based biotech start-up hopes to carve out a niche for itself by specialising in Asian in-vitro skin models for cosmetic testing.

L'Oréal obtains China license for skin model business

01-Oct-2014 By Simon Pitman

L'Oréal has been granted a license by authorities in China for its Episkin Biotechnology business, giving it the right to market its reconstructed skin model in the country.

Colipa tackles REACH and animal testing at assembly

11-Apr-2008 By Katie Bird

Animal testing alternatives, regulatory issues and innovation
within the industry are amongst the subjects on the agenda at
Colipa's annual general assembly next month.