23 Mar 2023 --- A market gap for cruelty-free cosmetics still exists despite modern science producing non-animal methods to test product safety. According to PETA UK science policy manager Dr. Julia Baines, EU-level bureaucracy is responsible for this failure to embrace new testing methods that would alleviate animal suffering. In part one of our series on animal testing, PersonalCareInsights revealed that loopholes in EU regulations mean that consumers often unknowingly purchase products that have been tested on animals.
