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Animal testing for cosmetics

Conservative UK government allow animal testing for cosmetics after 25-year ban

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NEWS AND OPINION: To compound their earlier failures particularly those of Liz Truss, the short-lived former Prime Minister, this dying conservative government has allowed the use of animal testing for cosmetics to protect the workers making the products after this form of animal testing was banned in the UK in 1998. The BBC reports that …

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Relaxation of rules taking animals from Ukraine into adjacent and EU countries (March 2022)

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There is no need for refugees to abandon their companion animals when leaving Ukraine. We know that many Ukrainian women are fleeing with their companion animals and their children. They make their way to adjacent countries like Poland, Hungary, Romania and Moldova. They struggle to get to these borders often carrying a cat or dog …

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Moroccan medical student in Ukraine flees with his two cats without a carrier

EU’s bureaucratic pet transportation rules causing cats and dogs to be abandoned at border by Ukrainian refugees?

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NEWS AND COMMENT: Mercifully, it appears that the EU countries bordering the Ukraine have loosened their pet transportation/immigration requirements to prevent the abandonment of cats and dogs and other animals at the border. But the information is not entirely clear while the new arrangements are put in place. As up to 400,000 refugees are evacuating …

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Retrograde EU wants to animal test for cosmetics

Retrograde European Union demands animal tests on two cosmetics ingredients

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NEWS AND COMMENT: The European Union through the European Chemicals Agency (ECA) have insisted that a German chemicals company, Symrise, conduct animal tests on two ingredients that are only used in cosmetics. They made this demand because of a set of EU rules concerning the registration, authorisation, evaluation and restriction of chemicals. It’s in the …

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EU law says that cat owners must keep their pets inside

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Arie Trouwborst, an environmental law specialist at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and Han Somsen, at the same university, say that European Union law insists that cat owners in Europe should keep the cats inside the home to protect wildlife. In any event, from the EU law perspective it is ultimately the result that counts, …

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What do Americans think about the European Union’s statement that they support the right of domestic cats to freedom of movement?

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You may have picked up on the claim by a couple of Dutch professors that European Union laws prevent cat owners allowing their cats to go outside except on a leash. The scientists’ argument is that free-roaming outside cats damage wildlife, particularly birds – the old, classic argument that we hear a lot. Incidentally, I …

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Allowing domestic cats to be unsupervised and free-roaming in the Europe Union is illegal under European rules?

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A couple of Dutch academics, Arie Trouwborst and Han Somsen – the former is an associate professor and the latter a full professor – state that allowing cats to roam outside without supervision by their owner or another person is illegal under European rules for nature protection. That is a dramatic statement. And I firmly …

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European Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals Reflects an Agreement to Not Declaw

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It is interesting to note that the European Convention for the Protection of Pet Animals, created in 1987 and effective in 1992 is an agreement between 23 European countries to not declaw cats. The UK is not a signatory to the convention (an international agreement) but UK law (Animal Welfare Act 2006) bans declawing unless …

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Eastern European animal traffickers import purebred cats into UK

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See video for harrowing scenes that the RSPCA investigators uncovered when they cracked an Eastern European dog trafficking racket. In the UK, the RSPCA have discovered and prosecuted an Eastern European dog and cat trafficking racket. I believe that this is but one example of the callous importation of purebred dogs and cats from Eastern …

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European Union failing to support developing countries to stop wildlife trafficking

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It is shocking to be told that thousands of products made from tigers, elephants, rhinos and other endangered species are being traded in Britain and throughout the European Union.  The reason is poor and disjointed controls at ports and airports.  It’s another European Union mess to put it frankly. It is estimated that only 10% …

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