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#BeCrueltyFree Australia welcomed the Coalition’s Federal Budget commitment to provide AU$2.1 million over two years from 2017-18 to implement its 2016 election commitment to ban the testing of cosmetic ingredients on animals in Australia and the sale of cosmetic products and ingredients that have

OTTAWA -- Canada is positioned to become the world’s 40 th country to prohibit cosmetic testing involving animals following today’s introduction of the Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act (Bill S-214) into the House of Commons. The bill was passed by the Senate and has been introduced by Conservative Shadow

LONDON—Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP), today announces its support for a worldwide ban on animal testing for cosmetics by backing Humane Society International on its #BeCrueltyFree initiative. The campaign is leading legislative reform to prohibit cosmetics testing on animals in all major global

SEOUL—Today, Humane Society International delivered 10,000 #ScienceWithoutSuffering petition signatures gathered in support of reducing and replacing animal testing for checmicals to National Assembly member Ms. Jeong Ae Han. Since coming into effect in 2015, Korea’s Act on the Registration and

OTTAWA—Canada has reached the half-way mark in becoming a cruelty-free cosmetics market with a final endorsement of Bill S-214, the Cruelty Free Cosmetics Act, by the Senate. The proposed legislation, which would prohibit both domestic animal testing for cosmetics as well as the sale of cosmetics

MEXICO CITY—Artist, actor and animal lover Joaquín Ferreira, star of the hit Netflix series “Club de Cuervos,” has joined Humane Society International in calling on the Mexican government to outlaw animal testing for cosmetics. HSI’s global campaign, #BeCrueltyFree, has already helped to secure

CANBERRA – The Australian Senate has today passed the Government’s Industrial Chemicals Bills 2017, including measures to prohibit reliance on new animal test data for chemicals introduced into Australia for use as ingredients in cosmetics. Passage of the bill was made possible thanks to an

Tests that use animals to assess the safety of chemicals and products such as cosmetics, pesticides and pharmaceutical drugs are still quite common. Although testing requirements differ from country to country and sector to sector, new ingredients that require safety assessment will very likely be

The International Councils on Animal Protection in OECD and Pharmaceutical Programmes (ICAPO and ICAPPP) are umbrella associations through which animal protection organisations, including HSI, interact with global chemical and pharmaceutical regulators who meet under the auspices of the Organisation

Alternatives to the use of animals in product testing include the elimination of redundant or needless study requirements, the replacement of animal tests with non-animal methods, and the modification of animal-based tests to both reduce the number of animals used and to minimise pain and distress

In contrast to product testing, in which some animal use is required by law, there is no law requiring the use of animals to study basic biology, or the pathology and treatment of human illness. Here, animal experiments are a carry-over from the early days of biology and medicine. Increasingly

Basic and applied biological research is responsible for the greatest proportion of animal use in laboratory experiments, accounting for approximately three-quarters of the estimated 115+ million annual total worldwide. Attempts to model human diseases in other animal species—whether to study the

Only a small proportion of countries collect and publish data concerning their use of animals for testing and research, but it is estimated that more than 115 million animals—including mice, rats, birds, fish, rabbits, guinea pigs, farm animals, dogs, cats, and non-human primates—are used and/or

Background BioMed21 is an initiative by Humane Society International and The Humane Society of the United States to support strategic scientific dialogue regarding the potential of extending the U.S. National Research Council vision of 21 st century toxicology to the wider field of biosciences. One

The European chemicals law, REACH (short for Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals), includes a commitment that animal testing will only be carried out as "a last resort," as well as a legal obligation to regularly update testing requirements to reduce and replace the use of

The following celebrities support Humane Society International's/The Humane Society of the United States' Be Cruelty-Free campaign, a global effort to end animal testing for cosmetics and personal care products. Join them at hsicanada.ca/becrueltyfree. Ke$ha “True beauty doesn’t come from cruelty

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