1938
The United States Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act is signed into law, requiring some safety substantiation of cosmetic products. This compels companies to begin testing their products on animals.
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1944
Draize Irritancy Tests, which require directly exposing animals’ eyes and skin to chemicals, are developed. Considered for decades to be the gold standard for cosmetic safety assessments, these tests cause extensive animal suffering.
1991
The European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods is established to oversee the development and acceptance of alternative test methods that reduce, refine and replace the use of animals.
1993
1996
Animal protection groups band together to form the Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics. The coalition manages the Leaping Bunny cruelty-free certification program in the United States and Canada.
2009
The European Union officially bans the testing of cosmetics ingredients on animals.
2006 - 2010
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) approves non-animal test methods.
| 2006 | Skin Corrosivity |
| 2009 | Eye Irritation |
| 2010 | Skin Irritation |
2021
APRIL
FDA Modernization Act introduced in US House of Representatives
JUNE
Skin Allergy and Phototoxicity
OECD Approval
DECEMBER
The federal Humane Cosmetics Act, legislation to prohibit cosmetics animal testing and the sale of animal-tested cosmetics, is reintroduced in the U.S.
2022
DECEMBER
The FDA Modernization Act 2.0 was passed and signed into law by President Biden. This bill, H.R. 2565 / S.2952, allows pharmaceutical scientists to develop new products using non-animal models including cell-based assays, organ chips and micro physiological systems, sophisticated computer modeling, and other human biology-based test methods.
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Research
More than 90% of research, often involving animals fails to lead to human treatments.
Trial
95% of new drugs fail in human clinical trials
Spending
The NIH spends approximately $19 billion annually on experiments using animals, nearly half its budget.
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A Relevant Alternative to Testing Women’s Personal Care Products
Good Clean Love is advocating for the use of a 3D human tissue model developed by Mattek as a more relevant alternative to testing women’s personal care products than animals.
“There are currently so many problems with women’s healthcare products. Partly, because they depend on archaic animal testing to approve new products. A lot of research shows that animal testing results do not provide an accurate reflection of safety.”
Wendy Strgar, CEO at Good Clean Love