New EPA - L’Oreal Partnership Could Help End Animal Testing for Cosmetics

Wayne Pacelle’s (2012) argues that animal testing is painful to animals and cannot be justified ethically or scientifically. However, there are thousands of cosmetics on the shelves that have gone through this process. L’Oreal is working towards eliminating the practice completely in its operations. This is seen through the EPA-L’Oreal partnership that could see the end of animal testing in cosmetics. In this new plan, the firms have resorted to developing an EPA’s non-animal chemical evaluation tool and Toxicity Forecaster. The aim is to ensure that there are no tests conducted on these animals to ensure ethical responsibility in their operations.

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Pacelle’s, W. (2012) ‘New EPA-L’Oreal Partnership Could Help End Animal Testing for Cosmetics’, Typepad, 12 March, Available at: http://hsus.typepad.com/wayne/2012/03/new-epa-lor%C3%A9al-partnership-could-help-end-animal-testing-for-cosmetics.html (Accessed: 13 January, 2014)