Canada announced in an announcement the ban on the use of animals for testing cosmetic tests, considering it “cruel and unnecessary”, joining several countries around the world that have taken the same measures.
When the rule goes into effect in December 2023, Canada will ban the import and sale of makeup that has been made using animal testing.
The new law makes it a crime to lie about animal testing.
The Canadian government admitted in a statement that in recent years the use of animals in the area of cosmetics has decreased significantly and that animal testing is used very infrequently in the country.
Likewise, the same president of Cosmetics Alliance Canada (CAC), an association that represents that sector, Darren Praznik, called the measure “symbolic”, since Canadian companies stopped using animals several years ago.
Praznik explained that “the industry and animal advocates have worked together for years to ban cosmetic testing on animals in Canada” and added that he was “very pleased” with the Canadian government’s decision to pass this law.
In 2015, CAC opposed a proposed law to ban the use of animals in the industry in Canada, considering it too broad.
Animal testing in the cosmetics sector has been prohibited in all European Union (EU) countries since 2004.
Other countries such as Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Australia, the United Kingdom, and South Korea have also passed laws against animal testing for cosmetic products.
In the United States, only a few states have banned animal testing of cosmetic products.
With information from EFE
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