HUHNE CALLS FOR END TO ANIMAL TESTING FOR COSMETICS (Eastleigh Liberal Democrats)

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HUHNE CALLS FOR END TO ANIMAL TESTING FOR COSMETICS

April 8, 2009 8:45 AM

Chris Huhne MP Eastleigh MP Chris Huhne has called for an end to the testing of cosmetics on animals.

Mr Huhne has backed a Commons motion which supports a ban on animal testing for cosmetics, and calls on the Government to ensure the disclosure of information relating to such testing.

Mr Huhne said, "It is unacceptable that animals should suffer merely because companies choose to develop new cosmetic products. The disclosure of information on animal testing for cosmetics would enable consumers to make informed choices."

The full text of Early Day Motion 137, tabled by Mike Hancock, Liberal Democrat MP for Portsmouth South, is as follows:

That this House believes, in common with the majority of the British public, that it is morally unacceptable that animals should suffer merely because companies choose to develop new cosmetic products; applauds Uncaged's Boycott Procter and Gamble campaign as a vital means of relaying public concern to companies who perform toxicity tests on animals for cosmetics products; supports the transparent and thorough implementation of the animal testing and marketing bans in the Council Directive 76/768 relating to cosmetic products; calls on the Minister of State at the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform to ensure the disclosure of relevant non-confidential data in product information relating to animal testing of cosmetics products so that consumers can make informed choices; and urges the Government to resist attempts by cosmetics companies and non-EU states to prevent or postpone implementation of the ban on the sale of animal tested cosmetics products or ingredients.