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Ótimas notícias! A partir de hoje, 11 de março de 2013, fica proibida a venda de qualquer produto cosmético com componentes que tenham sido testados em animais. Agora precisamos que essa proibição se estenda a toda e qualquer experiência animal.
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Fantastic news! Tomorrow animal testing for cosmetics is banned in Europe. Now we want to halt all animal experiments.
>> EU to ban animal-tested ingredients in cosmetics
BRUSSELS — EU regulators are expected to announce Monday a ban on the import and sale of cosmetics containing ingredients tested on animals and to pledge more efforts to push other parts of the world, like China, to accept alternatives.
The European Union banned animal testing of finished cosmetic products in 2004.
A second ban, on animal-tested ingredients, went into effect four years ago. But heavy lobbying by major cosmetics manufacturers resulted in an extension of the deadline for some tests for effects like allergies and cancer and for which there is still no substitute.
The ban, which will take effect immediately, “gives an important signal on the value that Europe attaches to animal welfare,” Tonio Borg, the EU commissioner for health and consumer policy, said in the draft copy of a statement to be released Monday and seen by the International Herald Tribune.
The cosmetics company L’Oreal, which is based in France, said Friday that it would respect the ban and “no longer sell in Europe any finished product with an ingredient that was tested on animals” after Monday.
But other representatives of the European industry, worth about 70 billion euros, or $91 billion, annually, criticized the commission for putting the ban into effect before alternatives existed for some of the most complex tests.
“Europe’s idea is to put more pressure on other parts of the world to end animal testing, but the science doesn’t match that political timetable,” said Colin Mackay, a spokesperson for Cosmetics Europe, a trade association.
The most likely outcome would be “that consumers in Europe won’t have access to new products because we can’t ensure that some ingredients will be safe without access to suitable and adequate testing,” Mackay said.
The global divergence in safety rules could also mean that companies sell the same product globally, but market one version for countries like China backed up by safety evidence from animal tests, and another version for Europe backed up by evidence from alternative tests.
Consumers of products from deodorants to sunscreens are unlikely to notice the difference immediately because cosmetics containing ingredients that were tested on animals before the ban can remain on the shelves.
But the move could complicate trade relations with parts of the world like China that demand animal testing as a condition for marketing cosmetics.
Borg said in his draft statement that he would “engage with third countries to follow our European approach.”
Borg will promise to continue helping finance the development of alternatives, so that Europe sets “an example of responsible innovation in cosmetics without any compromise on consumer safety.”
Estee Lauder, a cosmetics manufacturer based in the United States, said it did not test products or ingredients on animals and it was increasing efforts to gain global acceptance for safety evaluations that did not rely on animal tests.
New York Times News Service
