10.01.18
California lawmakers approved Senate Bill 1249, the California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, and, at press time, sent the Bill to Governor Jerry Brown for his signature.
International cosmetic trade association ICMAD, the non-profit trade association supporting creative, innovative companies, from startups to established multinational businesses of all sizes, released a statement regarding this bill:
“Consumer health and safety is of the utmost concern to the cosmetics and personal care industry and ICMAD and its more than 900 member companies have long supported measures that will continue to reduce and we hope eventually eliminate animal testing. This is why ICMAD’s primary focus has been to advocate for national uniformity for the regulation of the cosmetics industry, which is where the issue of animal testing needs to be directly addressed through the support and development of alternative testing models and reference data bases.
“The FDA has a long-standing record of consumer safety and strong national uniformity, and is the government body needed to set these types of laws, to ensure we don’t have a patchwork of regulations and maintain a responsible approach for consumer safety allowing continued innovation in our industry.”
International cosmetic trade association ICMAD, the non-profit trade association supporting creative, innovative companies, from startups to established multinational businesses of all sizes, released a statement regarding this bill:
“Consumer health and safety is of the utmost concern to the cosmetics and personal care industry and ICMAD and its more than 900 member companies have long supported measures that will continue to reduce and we hope eventually eliminate animal testing. This is why ICMAD’s primary focus has been to advocate for national uniformity for the regulation of the cosmetics industry, which is where the issue of animal testing needs to be directly addressed through the support and development of alternative testing models and reference data bases.
“The FDA has a long-standing record of consumer safety and strong national uniformity, and is the government body needed to set these types of laws, to ensure we don’t have a patchwork of regulations and maintain a responsible approach for consumer safety allowing continued innovation in our industry.”