Currently
in the U.S., tests on animals for cosmetics are not required by law. A new
proposed law, the Personal Care Products Safety Act, could change that and make
tests on animals for cosmetics ingredients mandatory—even though they've never
been required before! Speak up for animals by contacting your legislators today
and urging them to refuse to support the Personal Care Products Safety
Act.
ACT
NOW
Everyone wants safe ingredients in their lotions and shampoos, right? Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Susan Collins (R-ME) recently introduced the Personal Care Products Safety Act, which would require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review the safety of at least five ingredients used in personal-care products annually in order to determine whether those ingredients should continue to be used. Sounds like something we can all support, right?
WRONG. The proposed regulations will likely mean misery and death for animals. Right now, tests on animals for cosmetics are not required in the U.S. This bill could drastically change that by requiring such tests. The bill's language explicitly allows for tests on animals to be performed as part of the FDA's "review" process, even though these archaic tests are illegal in much of the world, including the European Union, Israel, and India.
Science has shown us time and time again that tests on animals are not only cruel and excruciatingly painful but also unreliable predictors of what will happen when a substance or product comes into contact with humans. Many advanced, scientifically superior, more affordable, and humane non-animal testing methods are already in wide use around the globe to evaluate the safety of product ingredients.
We need your help to ensure that this bill does not become a law mandating tests on animals! Any new regulations governing cosmetics and personal-care products in the U.S. must contain an explicit ban on tests on animals or the U.S. risks backsliding into requiring these deadly poisoning tests.
Please contact your legislators today and urge them refuse to support the Personal Care Products Act unless an explicit ban on animal tests is included.
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