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WASHINGTON — Hoping to build on recent bans in Europe and India, opponents of animal testing for cosmetics are planning to make a big push for a similar prohibition in the United States. The effort ...

While the use of animals to test the safety of cosmetic products in the U.S. is legal, a number of states have brought in laws to ban the practice. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notes that ...

Naturally Beautiful, Without Animal Testing? If that's important to you in your products, you should take a closer look. Photo: Getty Images “Organic” and “natural” are terms that initially sound good ...

Sunscreens are essential in the fight against skin cancer. The FDA, in its proposed order on sunscreen products, ignored the best science and required expensive and outdated animal tests on ...

I have been an avid user of cosmetics since the age of 10, when I would scour through my mother’s cosmetics trying to test different products on my face. Growing up, I was oblivious to the dark side ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- A bill introduced Wednesday in the House of Representatives would prohibit animal testing in the U.S. cosmetics industry and phase out the sale of cosmetics tested on animals in ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being urged to halt a set of Food and Drug Administration rules requiring that some cosmetics and sunscreens be tested on animals, considered an outdated and harmful practice ...

During an interview with a cosmetic chemist, I was shocked when they told me that "cruelty-free is just a marketing tactic; animal testing does not exist in the industry anymore." They did cite ...

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China is considering a rule change that would allow the sale of some cosmetics without requiring them to be tested on animals, opening up a potential route into the ...

However, when it comes to animal protection, consumers have no guaranteed safety. What does “cruelty-free” actually mean in cosmetics? There are now many bans on animal testing in Germany, but they ...

The cosmetic industry trade group, the Personal Care Products Council, referred to an earlier statement by its executive vice president for government affairs, John Hurson, who said the legislation ...