Title: Be Cruelty-Free Campaign - Humane Society International
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HSI’s #SaveRalph film propels Mexican cosmetic animal testing ban bill through key votes in Chamber of Deputies
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HSI welcomes tough new Chilean bill to outlaw cosmetic testing on animals
European Chemicals Agency ruling undercuts historic cosmetic animal testing ban
China appears on track to end animal testing for imported ‘ordinary’ cosmetics
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Terrified animals are still suffering in laboratories across the globe in government-mandated tests of cosmetic ingredients. Cosmetic chemicals are forced down their throats, dripped into their eyes or smeared onto their skin before they are killed and dissected. The Issue
Humane Society International and our partners are working to outlaw cosmetic testing on animals in the world’s largest and most influential beauty markets—and defend the hard-won bans already in force. See a timeline of our progress. And together with our Animal-Free Safety Assessment (AFSA) Collaboration partners, we’re creating a first-of-its-kind training curriculum to support smaller companies and government authorities to understand and trust the results of non-animal approaches in order to fully implement the animal testing bans. Cosmetic testing facts: Cosmetic animal tests are archaic chemical-poisoning experiments devised more than half a century ago, such as rodent “lethal dose” tests (1920s), rabbit eye and skin irritation tests (1940s) and guinea pig skin allergy tests (1950s). Modern non-animal methods are available for the most cosmetic safety issues, and have been shown to better predict human responses in the real-world than the animal tests they replace.