Vivisection: Brazil too towards the abolition of cosmetic tests on animals

    Vivisection: Brazil too towards the abolition of cosmetic tests on animals

    In Brazil, a step forward is being made in the fight against animal testing. A bill banning the use of animals for cosmetic testing, perfumes and personal hygiene items in the state of São Paulo has just been approved by the deputies, who on Wednesday, December 11, chose to follow the same path as Israel , India and Europe (where, however, the number of animals used is increasing according to EU Commission statistics)



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    In Brazil, a step forward in the fight against animal testing. A bill banning the use of animals for cosmetic testing, perfumes and personal hygiene items in the state of São Paulo has just been approved by the deputies, who on Wednesday, December 11, chose to follow the same path as Israel, India and Europe (where, however, the number of animals used is increasing according to the statistics of the EU Commission).

    In the wake of the events of the night of October 17, 2013, when some demonstrators in Brazil invaded the Royal Institute, about 60 km from Sao Paulo, and 200 animals released, including beagle dogs and rabbits, the desire to say enough to the experiments on animals of a large part of the Brazilian population could soon be realized, at least in part.

    Everything now depends on the opinion of Governor Geraldo Alckmin, who has 15 days to approve. “I have been with the governor and I have informed him that the project has been approved. He will now he will read it and will do his analysis himself, ma I don't think there will be vetoes, given that what happened at the Instituto Royal made it clear that this is the will of civil society ", he said the deputy Feliciano Filho, author of the 777/2013 project.

    Filho, who is chairman of the Assembly's antivivisection committee, discussed the issue on October 29 at a public hearing. Here the participants, including distinguished members of the Brazilian scientific community, listed the numerous substitute methods for vivisection, but also the real difficulties in replacing the use of animals. One above all is the fact that the trade in human tissues, which serve as a test culture, is prohibited in Brazil.


    For the deputy, however, these problems would be solved: there is already a wide range of cosmetic companies that do not do animal testing. If the project is approved, it will be up to the companies that are still using animal testing for cosmetic products to unravel the tangle of alternative methods.



    Roberta Ragni and Daia Florios

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