Canada has officially banned animal testing for cosmetics. The country’s Budget Implementation Act, passed Thursday night, included an amendment to the Food and Drugs Act prohibiting testing cosmetics ...

Albany: Throughout history, people have gone to great lengths to maintain and enhance their appearance, so much so that it is often said that beauty is pain. Perhaps it is, but that should not be true ...

Call it "the global squeeze." And it's not the kind of squeeze a company takes kindly to. Caught between conflicting ethical and legal demands imposed by an increasingly global marketplace, companies ...

The federal government has launched a new strategy to reduce the number of animals used in regulatory laboratory testing ...

As a society, we have become more conscious of animal welfare, whether it’s cracking down on dog fighting and puppy mills or improving conditions for creatures in circuses and zoos. New York has a ...

Animal lovers and advocacy groups across New York rejoiced in December 2022 when Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation banning the sale of dogs, cats, and rabbits at retail pet stores, aiming to put a ...

Millions of animals each year are killed in U.S. laboratories as part of medical training and chemical, food, drug and cosmetic testing, according to the non-profit animal rights organization People ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Luke Vargas: For a cosmetics product to earn certification as being cruelty free, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hoping to build off recent bans in Europe and India, opponents of animal testing for cosmetics plan to make a big push for a similar prohibition in the United States. The effort ...

There are a lot of hot-button questions when it comes to the ethics of scientific research, but the perennial issue of animal testing seems to incite fever-pitched anger on both side of the debate.

A legal tussle over animal testing in Europe is threatening to jeopardize what has become a key marketing tool for cosmetics companies: selling their shampoos and skin creams as “cruelty free.” The ...