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New Jersey Is Latest US State To End Cosmetics Animal Testing

Now the eighth state in the country to pass the law following California, Nevada, Illinois, Virginia, Maryland, Maine and Hawaii.

Gov. Phil Murphy, D-NJ, signed legislation to end the sale of cosmetics in New Jersey that have been newly tested on animals. State Senator Joseph Lagana, D-Paramus, and State Assmeblyman Anthony Verrelli, D-Trenton,  were the primary sponsors of the legislation, which passed unanimously in both the New Jersey State Senate and Assembly with an extensive list of bipartisan cosponsors. New Jersey is now the eighth state in the country, and the fifth this year, to pass a law to ban the sale o...

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