Why the need – Cosmetics

Why the need – Cosmetics

Legislative, social, and economic market forces are driving the need for pre-animal testing or alternatives to animal testing.  The European Union, Australia, and India have enacted laws banning animal testing of cosmetics, with increasing pressure to ban animal experimentation altogether.  Laws such as REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and restriction of Chemicals) in the EU and similar proposed legislation in Japan, Canada, Australia, and the US are seeking to increase safety testing of commercially used chemicals.  Together these initiatives place additional legal and economic obligations on compound testing companies, leading them to seek more cost-effective and highly predictive alternatives to using animals in safety and toxicology testing.