Animal Experiments: Cosmetics — Written Question

Question

Alex Mayer

Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, with reference to the Written Statement of 17 May 2023 on Regulation Update, HCWS779, if she will make it her Department's policy to reinstate a full ban on the testing of cosmetic products on animals

Answer

Dan Jarvis

Animal testing of cosmetics for consumer safety has been banned in the UK since 1998 and this remains in force.Additionally, the Government does not issue licences for animal testing of chemicals that are used exclusively as cosmetics ingredients, carried...

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