EU sales ban on new cosmetics tested on animals: Impact on alternative methods, WTO implications and animal welfare aspects

Alternatives to Laboratory Animals

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL. 1A, 2004, Pages 365-371

  Ruhdel, Irmela W ^a  

^a Animal Welfare Academy Akademie für Tierschutz   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative methods; Animal experiments; Animal testing ban; Animal welfare; Cosmetic marketing ban sales ban; EU legislation; Validation; World Trade Organisation

Indexed keywords

COSMETIC;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL RIGHTS; ANIMAL TESTING ALTERNATIVE; ANIMAL TESTING REDUCTION; ANIMAL TESTING REPLACEMENT; ANIMAL USE; ANIMAL WELFARE; ANIMAL WELLBEING; CONFERENCE PAPER; ETHICS; EUROPEAN UNION; LAW; LITERATURE; MARKETING; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; STANDARD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3042657207     PISSN: 02611929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/026119290403201s60     Document Type: Conference Paper

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