Canada Bans Animal Testing and Trade in Cosmetics Industry

Canada has passed measures through the Budget Implementation Act (Bill C-47) to ban cosmetics animal testing and trade, making it the latest country to join over 40 jurisdictions and major markets that have already passed laws to end or limit cosmetics animal testing and/or sales. The amendments will also prohibit selling cosmetics that rely on new animal testing data to establish the product’s safety, and false or misleading labeling pertaining to the testing of cosmetics on animals. Animal protection advocates, including Humane Society International/Canada, Animal Alliance Canada, and Cruelty Free International, have been working closely with the Canadian government for several years to advance workable legislation to ban cosmetics animal testing in Canada.