Cruelty Free International presents roadmap to New Zealand to join the global move to end the use of animals to test
cosmetics
Global campaigning organization, Cruelty Free International, is calling on the Government of New Zealand to sign up to a
roadmap to implement a ban on the use of animals to test cosmetics.
The call comes as Cruelty Free International delivers a ground-breaking scientific report on the alternatives to animal
tests to The Hon Nathan Guy, Minister for Primary Industries in New Zealand and 100 additional Governments around the
globe.
This report builds on the progress already made with animal testing bans for cosmetics purposes in other countries,
including the European Union, India, Israel and China’s recent announcement of acceptance of non-animal testing from
June 2014.
The report, ‘Meeting the Global Challenge: A guide to assessing the safety of cosmetics without using animals’ and
roadmap are designed to help governments, politicians, regulators and cosmetics manufacturers across the world in
switching to alternatives to replace animal testing; ensuring that they use the safest and most modern methods and are
not cut off from European and other markets due to dependence on obsolescent technology. It describes the alternative
approaches that are available to replace animals and shows how they are more reliable, faster and cheaper than the
animal tests they replace.
March 11th marks the one year anniversary of the historic European Union ban on animal tested cosmetics (7th Amendment
to Directive 76/768/EEC, now EU Regulation 1223/2009), thereby saving countless animals’ lives from cruel cosmetics
tests.
Cruelty Free International, CEO, Michelle Thew, said: ‘On this significant day for our global campaign to end the use of
animals in cosmetics testing, we are appealing to the Government of New Zealand to sign up to our roadmap and take steps
to bring about a complete end to cruel cosmetics tests on animals.’
Cruelty Free International has placed the issue of animal testing on the agenda of many governments for the very first
time as part of a global strategy to tackle product testing.
Members of the public wishing to support the campaign can sign the petition to the New Zealand government at change.org
here.
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