Brazil rejects proposal to ban cosmetics testing on animals
The proposal submitted by the NGO Humane Society International (HSI) to end, once and for all, with the testing of cosmetics on animals was denied by the National Council for the control of Animal experimentation (Concea).The European Union, India and Israel already have banned the testing of cosmetics on animals. The United States, Australia and New Zealand have created legislative proposals to ban this practice in the beauty industry. But Brazil seems to be going in the opposite direction of this worldwide movement.According to the pró-animal organization, this type of procedure is unethical, since it causes pain to animals for consumption of disposable products, which can be replaced by other techniques already adopted by companies of beauty industry that if this practice disfellowshipped.Despite the technical advice which proved the viability of prohibition and the petition with tens of thousands of signatures, the Concea not approved the proposal, whose vote had been promised for October. Thus, this organ chose to propose a new regulation requiring Labs to use alternatives to animal testing, five years after being validated by the Government."Two-thirds of Brazilians support the banning of tests and 170 members of Congress also advocate the Federal idea. It's a shame that the Brazilian regulators cannot respect the opinion of the population and their representatives, who have expressed consistently its strong opposition to animal testing to the beauty industry, "said Helder Constantine, spokesperson for the campaign free of cruelty, of HSI, quoted by the sustainable planet.Foto: www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/Creative Commons
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