Save Animals Today and Tomorrow: Support the Humane Cosmetics Act
Action Alert from All-Creatures.org

FROM

AAVS American Anti-Vivisection Society
July 2018

ACTION

Humane Cosmetics Act (H.R. 2790) will end the cruel and unnecessary practice of testing cosmetic products and ingredients on animals.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not require companies to use animals to test cosmetics, and the majority of Americans support humane cosmetics and personal care products.

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Do you want to know that the cosmetics and personal care products you use are free of animal testing? Of course, you do!

There are logos you can rely on, like the Leaping Bunny Program’s cruelty-free certification and logo, for example. But wouldn’t it be great if there was a law prohibiting the use of animals in testing cosmetics and other beauty products? Well, there is!

The Humane Cosmetics Act (HCA) is a bill that would end cosmetic animal testing by both private companies and the federal government. The bipartisan bill is sponsored by Representatives Martha McSally (R-AZ,) Don Beyer (D-VA), Ed Royce (R-CA), Tony Cardenas (D-CA), Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), and Paul Tonko (D-NY).

Specifically, the HCA would make it illegal “to conduct or contract for cosmetic animal testing…for the purpose of developing a cosmetic for sale in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce.” The bill also includes testing cosmetic ingredients on animals. The HCA would also make it “unlawful to sell, offer for sale, or knowingly transport in interstate commerce any cosmetic if the final product or any component…was developed or manufactured using cosmetic animal testing….” A fine of as high as $10,000 could be levied for each violation.

It should be noted that the HCA defines “cosmetic animal testing” as exposure of a cosmetic or ingredient to the “skin, eyes, or other body part of a live non-human vertebrate.” Although they comprise about 95 percent of all animals used in U.S. labs, mice and rats are specifically excluded from the Animal Welfare Act definition of ‘animal,’ so researchers are not required to consider alternatives that could replace their use. However, because mice and rats are both vertebrate species, the HCA would spare these animals from this unnecessary, painful testing.

Additionally, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not require companies to use animals to test cosmetics, and the majority of Americans support humane cosmetics and personal care products. In fact, more than two thirds of voters believe that cosmetics should not be tested on animals. More than 30 countries around the world, including all in the EU, as well as Israel and India, prohibit the use of animals to test cosmetics.

Now it’s time for the U.S. to end the use of animals to test cosmetics and their ingredients!

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