Most of your everyday products are tested on animals some rather popular brands including Windex, Ralph Lauren Fragrances, Tommy Hilfiger, Tom Ford, Avon, Clorox, and Dolce & Gabbana. Even today, all sorts of products are experimented on animals to test the toxic chemicals in them, skin irritation and burning inflammation. Among the products behind brands, animals are being tested everyday rather its some sort of cosmetic or medication. Lab rats are injected and monitored closely for however long they survive in order to calculate the effects of the product. Some die, while others have severe problems that will affect how they live every day. In an effort to stop cosmetic testing, a new bill has been introduced. The Humane Cosmetics Act, this bill is to ensure animals are and will not be harmed in the process of creating or manufacturing …show more content…
In addition, animal testing for cosmetic ingredients are prohibited since March 2009. The amendment does not allow companies to use animal testing to fulfill regulatory requirements in other countries. In France, in order to use animals, legislation requires you to have an institutional and project license before testing on vertebrates. The institution must submit details of their facilities and reasoning for the experiments, in which a five-year license may be granted following an inspection of the institution. The project licensee requires you to be trained and educated at an appropriate level. Although this helps limit the amount of animals used as test subjects, it does not eliminate animal testing all together. In the United States, it is not legally required to test cosmetics on animals before manufacturing and selling a cosmetic product. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act does not condone the sale of mislabeled cosmetics and does not require animal tests to be conducted to demonstrate cosmetics are