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New Scientist reports on the banning of certain tests on live animals, which have been used for many years by cosmetic companies:

For decades, posters depicting rabbits with inflamed, reddened eyes symbolised campaigns against the testing of cosmetics on animals. Now the most severe of those tests are to be banned across the European Union.

The so-called Draize tests are a series of notorious procedures that involve applying cosmetics ingredients to the eyes and skin of live laboratory rabbits.

These humane alternatives have been available for commercial use for years, but to enforce their use, ECVAM has had to show they are as good as or better than the procedures on live animals they are to replace.

Unfortunately, they are still allowed to perform certain other tests until 2009 when a complete ban will come into effect. This ban will spare hundreds of thousands of animals each year, mainly mice and rabbits.

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