Canada announced on Tuesday that the ban on the use of animals to test cosmetic products deeming it “cruel and unnecessary”, dozens of countries around the world have already taken similar measures.
Once the new regulations come into force in December this year, Canada will ban the import and sale of cosmetic products developed using animal testing. The regulations also make it a crime to lie about animal testing.
The Canadian government acknowledged in a statement that the use of animals in the cosmetics industry has declined sharply in recent years and that animal testing is very little used in Canada.
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The president of Cosmetics Alliance Canada (CAC), the association representing the cosmetics industry in the country, Darren Praznik, He called the move “symbolic” because Canadian companies stopped using animals years ago.
Praznik explained that “the industry and animal advocates have been working together for years to ban animal testing for cosmetics in Canadaadding that he was “very pleased” with the Canadian government’s decision to pass this law.
In 2015, CAC opposed a bill to ban the use of animals in industry in Canada, as it was deemed too broad. Animal testing in the cosmetics sector has been banned in all countries of the European Union (EU) since 2004.
Other countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Australia, the United Kingdom and South Korea have also passed laws against animal testing for cosmetic products. In the United States, only a few states have banned animal testing for cosmetic products.
Source: Eluniverso
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