Editing Animal testing (section)

====Cosmetics testing====
{{Main|Testing cosmetics on animals}}
[[File:NoAnimalTesting.png|thumb|The "Leaping Bunny" logo: Some products in Europe that are not tested on animals carry this symbol.]]

Cosmetics testing on animals is particularly controversial. Such tests, which are still conducted in the U.S., involve general toxicity, eye and skin irritancy, [[phototoxic]]ity (toxicity triggered by [[ultraviolet]] light) and mutagenicity.<ref>Stephens, Martin & Rowan, Andrew. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20080308163106/http://www.hsus.org/web-files/PDF/ARI/ARIS_An_Overview_Of_Animal_Testing_Issues.pdf An overview of Animal Testing Issues, Humane Society of the United States]}}</ref>

Cosmetics testing on animals is banned in India, the United Kingdom, the European Union,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ceway.eu/cosmetics-animal-testing-eu/|title=Cosmetics animal testing in the EU|access-date=5 December 2018|archive-date=30 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230121610/https://www.ceway.eu/cosmetics-animal-testing-eu/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Israel and Norway<ref name="WorldPost">{{cite news|title=India Joins the EU and Israel in Surpassing the US in Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Testing Policy|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/monica-engebretson/cruelty-free-cosmetics-testing_b_3605460.html|date=16 March 2014|author =Engebretson, Monica|work=The World Post}}</ref><ref name="US Bill">{{cite press release|title=Cruelty Free International Applauds Congressman Jim Moran for Bill to End Cosmetics Testing on Animals in the United States |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/05/bc-cfi-idUSnPnpHM6w1+98+PRN20140305 |date=5 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140318031816/https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/05/bc-cfi-idUSnPnpHM6w1%2B98%2BPRN20140305 |archive-date=18 March 2014 }}</ref> while legislation in the U.S. and Brazil is currently considering similar bans.<ref name="HSUS">{{cite press release|title=Animal Attraction: Federal Bill to End Cosmetics Testing on Animals Introduced in Congress |url=http://www.khou.com/community/blogs/animal-attraction/Animal-Attraction---249254631.html |date=10 March 2014 |author=Fox, Stacy |publisher=Humane Society of the United States |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140311022116/http://www.khou.com/community/blogs/animal-attraction/Animal-Attraction---249254631.html |archive-date=11 March 2014 }}</ref> In 2002, after 13 years of discussion, the European Union agreed to phase in a near-total ban on the sale of animal-tested cosmetics by 2009, and to ban all cosmetics-related animal testing. France, which is home to the world's largest cosmetics company, [[L'Oreal]], has protested the proposed ban by lodging a case at the [[European Court of Justice]] in [[Luxembourg]], asking that the ban be quashed.<ref name=Osborn/> The ban is also opposed by the European Federation for Cosmetics Ingredients, which represents 70 companies in Switzerland, Belgium, France, Germany, and Italy.<ref name=Osborn>Osborn, Andrew & Gentleman, Amelia.[https://www.theguardian.com/animalrights/story/0,11917,1021527,00.html "Secret French move to block animal-testing ban"], ''The Guardian'' (19 August 2003). Retrieved 27 February 2008.</ref> In October 2014, India passed stricter laws that also ban the importation of any cosmetic products that are tested on animals.<ref>{{cite news|url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-bans-import-of-cosmetics-tested-on-animals/articleshow/44814398.cms|title = India bans import of cosmetics tested on animals|last = Mohan|first = Vishwa|date = 14 October 2014|work = The Times of India|access-date = 14 October 2014}}</ref>