14 DAY TRIAL // China's Food and Drug Administration has announced that, following several campaigns organized by animal rights activists, it has agreed to take steps towards ending the practice of testing cosmetics on animals.
For the time being, the country is not ready to ban the practice altogether. However, it will only be a few more months until cosmetics companies operating in China will be able to choose whether or not they want to test their products on animals.
Thus, starting June 2014, testing cosmetics such as shampoos and perfumes on animals will no longer be mandatory in this country, All Animal Rights tells us.
Companies wishing to cut all ties with animal cruelty will be able to determine how safe their products are either by consulting safety data for the ingredients they use, or by carrying out EU-validated non-animal tests, the same source details.
“We will meet with Beijing officials in the coming days to look closely at the detail of this cosmetics announcement, but it looks like there could at last be a bright future for cruelty-free companies in China and hope on the horizon for an end to cosmetics cruelty,” Troy Seidle with Humane Society International commented on this piece of news.