A new law, designed to end the needless suffering animals endure during cosmetics testing, went into effect on January 1, 2020, helping ensure the importation and sale of California’s cosmetics are cruelty-free.
Former Gov. Jerry Brown enacted the California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act back in 2018. It bans California-based manufacturers from importing or selling beauty products that have been tested on, or contain ingredients previously tested on, animals. This is the first such law in the United States.
Companies breaking the new law will be fined $5,000 with an extra $1,000 charge for each subsequent day the violation continues.
“We are proud to have led the effort to pass this monumental law,” said one of the sponsors on the bill, founder and president of Social Compassion in Legislation Judie Mancuso. “Animal testing is not needed to prove the safety of cosmetics and personal hygiene products, and this new law codifies that scientific fact. We must modernize and get rid of these antiquated protocols and stop torturing poor innocent animals. Once again, our great state of California is a leader on such important, smart and compassionate animal rights issues.”
A number of other animal protection measures are also set to come into effect in California this year, including three bills signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newson in 2019, which prohibit the use of wild animals in circus performances, ban fur trapping and the sale of fur products, and reintroduce a ban on importing or selling products crafted from crocodiles and alligators.
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No need for cosmetic animal testing, there must be piles of old data. Things don’t change that much. California watch your step fines are ideal and bad publicity is bad for your business.
Thank you California! Now if only the rest of the world would follow!
“Innovative animal test-free research methods are becoming more available,” reported Dr. Gaby Neumann, with the German organization Doctors Against Animal Experiments, recently in response to the opening of a new animal testing lab in Hamburg, Germany.
That statement falls into the old “reduce, revise, replace” argument, which allows laboratories to consider “switching over” (taking years, or decades, or who knows, while assuring the public that they’re revising or reducing in the meantime) from something which is a FRAUD IN THE FIRST PLACE.
It’s a strategic plan to keep us uninformed. I JUST TODAY got an email from ewg (Environmental Working Group) stating there are CURRENTLY “88 different carcinogens and reproductive toxicants are in cosmetics sold in California.”
THAT is how far fraudulent animal testing has gotten us ! It not only is not necessary in today’s day and age, it was ALWAYS misleading, and simply used as the companies’ straw man defense in court when someone would sue them.
STOP ABUSING THEM!!! ENOUGH
Way to go, California!!!!
Good for California, now let’s get the other 49 states to do this.
Proud of California! Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much. This should all be stopped now!!!
DEBERIA SER OBLIGATORIO EL NO HACER PRUEBAS EN ANIMALES!!!!! LOS ANIMALES MERECEN TODO NUESTRO RESPETO, YA LES ROBAMOS SUS TIERRAS NO LES SIGAMOS ROBANDO SUS VIDAS!!!!!!
THANK YOU FOR BEING AN EXAMPLE CA!!
Anyone buying cosmetics needs to ask if it’s tested on animals. If so, boycott!
Stop all animal abuse as you could’ve been born an innocent animal.
I’ve always hated this. It’s nothing but animal cruelty to start with. You got a whole world of people out that would volunteer for things like this. Who in the world was the person to think such cruelty up to start with?? You know they were heartless to start with, and could care less about these poor innocent animals. Then more of the same kind of people, followed along with them. WHEN IS ALL OF THIS GOING TO STOP????
Thank you, wonderful news!
This is fantastic news now for the rest of the world to follow suit.
I really don’t want to burst any bubbles, but the truth does need a hearing. Opposing vivisection has been a large part of my life. Dealing with the perpetrators, the media, the crafty appeasing politicians, has shed light on what needs to be done.
Vivisection is not valid for anything, not for people, and not for animals, but it is a self-perpetuating BUSINESS (and also a haven for sadists, who are being paid mostly with OUR taxes). Whatever is attributed to it is (according to doctors and scientists who have been brave enough to speak out) is either a lie, or could be found faster, easier, and far less expensively by other means.
At the current rate of “laws,” “bills,” and “regulations,” vivisection will still be with us in full force when your great grandchildren are old.
My thanks goes to the activists, who have, and will continue to, expose this mockery, and have done more than any smooth talking two-faced politicians who are simply reading public sentiment (which has been, and continues to be, changed by the actions of the activists) and just doing what will make someone say, “I’ll vote for you!”
Getting lippy about loopholes in the animal testing ban …
hsi.org.au/index.php/blog/getting-lippy-about-loopholes-in-the-animal-testing…
Vivisection Or Science: A Choice To Make
http://www.veganvillage.org/Article-Vivisection-or-Science.html
Why Fraudulent Animal Research Continues
medicinekillsmillions.com/articles/pdf/the_great_animal_welfare_fraud.pdf
Exactly! If were were back in the 80s-90s with public sentiment being still overwhelmingly on the side of cosmetics “testing” on animals, Newsom would never have passed this bill; in fact it wouldn’t even have existed. It’s the real, die-hard activists who have changed public opinion so that we could get to this point, with still SO MUCH further to go, if only people would stop being so easily manipulated by the media and their “animal research saves lives” promos passed off as news.
YES!!! California will lead us into the next and best part of the growth of kindness!!!!
Stop animal testing everywhere!
How I wish that the whole world would become as gentle and compassionate as the lawmakers of California.
I want to meet this Governor. He should be President!
No offense, but while I 100% agree with what the Governor has done for animals, he is a liberal idiot in MANY other aspects of this state. Please do not for one second think he is a good-hearted individual. He is a lying, conniving politician who relies on his looks to get people to buy in to him.
Stacey: 👍💯❗️
Right on, California, right on! Thanks for caring and your compassion for these animals that were forced to endured these grueling and deadly experiments. This is the 21st century and animal testing is a thing from the past. Wake up, you ancient Dr. Frankensteins, and get on board with technology.
There is no excuse for torturing animals for cosmetic safety. Well done to California!!
Why do experiments on animals?…. So what if a human comes out in a rash or gets ill? Leave animals alone!!!!!!!!
I never understood why if when you do one test and see it’s effects that you need to do a million more which give the same results and needlessly torture animals?
Kudos to California. Let’s hope that Washington DC doesn’t overturn it for some arbitrary BS reason.
Actually, Judy, Washington just signed a bill making animal cruelty a federal felony, but that’s only slightly better than this California charade which is meant to placate the public, while vivisection continues unabated. We have to get serious about this, and not leave it to any politicians.
No animal should be abused in laboratories for vanity or profit.
ABOUT TIME!!!!!!!!!!
J’espère que mon pays, la France, va suivre un jour cet exemple!!!
Bravo California. Now for the rest of the U.S
Congratulations to the state of California for their humane action concerning animals.
Thank you Ms. Mancuso, Gov Brown, and Gov Newsome, I’m not a Democrat but I stand United with you for your compassion for animals, Here in NY the laws are being passed to protect our precious animals too, it’s time for this needless killing and cruelty to stop once and for all.
PURE AWESOMENESS…GET IN LINE ALL OTHER STATES…IT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO…STOP THE CRUELTY…
Thank you!!!! Good news. We’re moving in the right direction.
I’m so happy California did the ban!!!!! Now we NEED 49 more states to do the same!!!! Wake tf up Trump and sign a bill to end this
Thank Natalie so glad to hear it’s three now, other states should get on board NOW!
Correction. Cruelty Free cosmetics laws went into effect in Nevada and Illinois on the same day as California’s law. They are the first 3 states to do so.
It’s good that it effects California- based Manufacturers, but each state would have to pass the same legislation to make it effective, and what about companies exporting/importing? There’s much to be done, but’s a a good start.
Well done California!
ALL vivisection is fraud, and the reason these little “steps” (many of which turn out to have built in loopholes) are presented as great strides is to keep us somewhat appeased, while it’s business as usual behind laboratory doors, much of it with our tax money.
I’ve seen photos of live animals with their eyeballs removed, so the sockets can be used to anchor four corner metal beams to help keep them immobilized while electroshocks and other tortures are administered to their genitals. The purpose? Sexual research. And that’s just a tiny tip of the iceberg.
We need some of that anger (which is currently misdirected to where we’re media-manipulated into directing it) to spur people into more direct action, and confronting those white coated sadistic clowns. Make them stop torturing animals on OUR money!
Unnecessary Fuss – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0BEA79A8CB922B88
Ricky Gervais in conversation with Dr Ray Greek
http://www.facebook.com/PeterEganAnimalAdvocate/videos/ricky-gervais-in-conversation...
Well said, Sue, and a lot more nicely than I would have put it. 35+ years ago we were saying NO to “testing” personal care products on animals, and were getting HUGE resistance (even in CA!) from the general public, who were convinced by the media that animal testing of makeup and such was necessary to protect them. Now, very few people still believes that. Back then, and decades earlier, animal “testing” should already have been banned entirely around the world, along with ALL use of animals for all of this subhuman insanity. The first lunatic who thought up animal vivisection as “medical science” should have been put in an asylum as an example for others. We’d all be a whole lot healthier today if that had been the case.
believe* (darn it)
The sickos need to stop torturing animals PERIOD! Our money, their money, is NOT the issue!
Thanks for cherry-picking that out of there. And just when I was beginning to think we were on the same side.
👏👏👏👏👏👏 it’s about time and a good start.