Victory against cruelty: Animal test ban finally takes effect after 30 years

                                                                  An EU ban on animal testing has come into effect

Charlotte Meredith (2013) reported the victory for animal welfare campaigners comes after decades of protests against using animals to test the safety of toiletries. EU regulators announced the ban along with a pledge to make more efforts to push other parts of the world, like China, to accept alternatives. Before a ban on animal experiments in the EU in 2009, about 2,000 animals were still being used for testing in France, the Czech Republic, Spain and Romania. As a cosmetics company, L’Oreal has said that it would respect the ban and “no longer sell in Europe any finished product with an ingredient that was tested on animals. However, it doesn’t means they won’t sell their finished products without animal tasting in other countries besides EU like China. The RSPCA will now be taking its message to these countries and companies to ask them to follow our lead and end this suffering.

Reference

Meredith, C. (2013) ‘Victory against cruelty: Animal test ban finally takes effect after 30 years’, Express, 11 March, Available at: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/383425/Victory-against-cruelty-Animal-test-ban-finally-takes-effect-after-30-years (Accessed: 4 February, 2014)