Animal testing no longer required for cosmetics sold in China market
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SINCE July 1, animal testing is no longer legally mandated for ordinary cosmetics produced and sold in China’s mainland. This is an important step toward ending animal testing of cosmetics.
During cosmetics testing, animals can have chemicals dripped in their eyes, spread on their skin or force-fed to them in massive, lethal doses.
On December 16, 2013, the China Food and Drug Administration published Notification Regarding Adjustments to Cosmetics Registration and Management on its website, stipulating that domestic ordinary cosmetics that have passed the risk assessment will be exempt from animal toxicological experiment from July 1, 2014. Cosmetics companies will use existing ingredient data and results of validated non-animal tests instead.
“This is a major milestone for our Be Cruelty-Free China campaign as it’s China’s first step on the road to ending all cosmetics animal testing.” said Wendy Higgins of the Humane Society International UK. In Beijing, a letter signed by HSI and more than 20 Chinese animal-protection groups was sent to the China FDA to welcome the waiving of needless test requirements for cosmetic products. It is estimated that between 100,000 and 300,000 rabbits, guinea pigs, mice and other animals have, until now, been used to test cosmetics in China’s mainland every year.
If every eligible company took advantage of the policy change, up to 10,000 animals a year could be saved in China’s mainland. As well as causing animal suffering, many of these tests are notoriously unreliable in predicting real chemical reactions in people.
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