admin Colombia will become the first South American country to prohibit cosmetic testing on animals, a new law signed by President Iván Duque Márquez on August 10.
The legislation, which turn out to be effective in 2024, will ban the use of animals for testing cosmetics products and ingredients for both imported and manufactured goods.
Presented in 2018, the bill was authored by Congress member Juan Carlos Losada, who worked with Animal Defenders International (ADI) Colombia to improve the proposed legislation. ADI provided research and testimony on how ineffective testing cosmetics on animals is, and the bill gained the favor of the Colombian government, the National Association of Businessmen, and all 14 political parties in the country, according to a report ADI provided to Lady Freethinker.
“This humane and historic new law will spare the suffering of countless animals in needless cosmetics tests,” stated Jan Creamer, President of ADI. “Thank you, Colombia, for leading the way in Latin America, we hope to see other nations take similar action.”
“With the approval of this law, Colombia advanced as a country towards community development free of animal exploitation,” stated Senate bill co-author Richard Aguilar. “It is time to discard any product manufactured at the cost of animal suffering, to advance the protocols and the ways we investigate and to be on par with world leaders in scientific innovation, for whom these practices are considered cruel.”
Colombia joins almost 40 other countries in prohibiting cosmetics testing on animals, as more people recognize that this practice is cruel and unnecessary.
Cosmetic testing on animals is inaccurate and unreliable because it fails to account for differences between species, generating results that aren’t essentially applicable to humans. Accordingly, companies across the world are gradually adopting non-animal procedures that produce more useful results.
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