Federal Member for La Trobe Jason Wood met with Humane Society International (HSI) campaign manager Hannah Stuart in Berwick on Monday to celebrate new measures to ban cosmetic animal testing in Australia.
The government’s Industrial Chemicals Bill 2017 is set to become law after passing both houses of Australian Parliament last week.
Passage of the bill was made possible thanks to an agreement reached with HSI, which saw the government commit to 11 substantial reinforcing measures to ensure that all cosmetic ingredients are captured by the ban, together with funding to support the development and uptake of modern non-animal test methods.
“We are pleased to welcome this milestone in moving to end reliance on cruel and outdated cosmetic animal testing in Australia,” Ms Stuart said.
“This is a huge win for animals, consumers and science.”
Mr Wood said the commitment to ban cosmetic testing on animals is a positive step for consumers and Australia’s cosmetics marketplace.
“Testing the ingredients of cosmetics on living creatures is a completely unnecessary cruelty and it’s time Australia joined a growing number of communities by banning it.”
