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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.

ECHA: ‘Coordinated effort’ at policy level required for alternatives to replace animal testing in EU

09-Dec-2020 By Kacey Culliney

A coordinated approach amongst European Union policy makers that considers research, method and validation is needed for non-animal alternative cosmetic testing to fully replace animal data, says the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).

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.

Microplastics restriction: ECHA has a ‘very restricted and narrow view’ of our industry, says Cosmetics Europe chief

18-Sep-2020 By Kacey Culliney

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has displayed a very narrow view of the cosmetics and personal care industry in its proposal to restrict microplastics, underestimating the true value and complexity of the sector, says the director-general...

Under the lens Part I: REACH microplastics restriction

Industry poised to continue fight against ‘extremely disproportionate’ EU microplastics restriction

18-Jun-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Cosmetics Europe and its member associations will continue their argument that the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) proposal to restrict microplastics on the EU market remains disproportionately weighted against beauty and personal care.

Non-animal testing: ECHA report shows ‘significant uptick’ of in vitro chemical tests

08-Jun-2020 By Kacey Culliney

Non-animal tests on chemical substances continue to be widely used in the EU, with read-across studies most popular and in vitro methods gaining traction, according to the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) latest report.

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.