Company News, Regulations

Animal Testing Out in New Zealand

Government minister makes moves to end actions.

Cruelty Free International has welcomed a statement from New Zealand Government Minister Nathan Guy who has ruled out allowing animal tests for cosmetics. In a letter to Cruelty Free International, Guy stated, “Given current societal attitudes to the use of animals in testing cosmetics and the regulatory requirement for animal ethics committees [AECs] to apply a harm-benefit test, I believe that it is highly unlikely that any AEC now or in the future would approve a project to conduct cosmetics ...

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