Under the guise of the REACH regulation, several cosmetic ingredients are to be tested on animals - despite of the prohibition. To prevent this, a broad alliance of animal protection and animal rights organizations as well as over 450 animal experiment-free cosmetics companies have sent an open letter to several EU institutions today. In this letter, they demand that the groundbreaking ban on cosmetic animal testing has to be upheld.
Sources:
https://www.tierrechte.de/2020/12/01/02-dezember-2020-offener-brief-an-die-eu-kosmetik-muss-tierversuchsfrei-bleiben/
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/press-room/20180426IPR02613/tierversuche-fur-kosmetika-abgeordnete-fordern-weltweites-verbot
Original letter to the President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli:
https://www.tierrechte.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Open-Letter-Cosmetics-Animal-Testing-Ban-Effectively-Shredded-2.12.20.pdf