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“Chanel does not use animals for product testing.

Product testing on animals may be carried out by ingredient suppliers in the case of some raw materials (that are used in other industries as well as the cosmetics industry), but only when there are no other, so-called alternative, substitute methods available that could guarantee consumer safety.

This is why the prohibitions listed in the European Cosmetics Directive are planned to come into force in 2013 at the very latest, the date on which suppliers will have to stop such tests.

This prohibition will therefore become effective gradually as ECVAM, the European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods, validates alternative methods to replace testing on animals.

We are, of course, in favour of these measures, and are, moreover, very involved within the perfume and cosmetics industry in financing major research projects that examine alternative testing methods to replace testing on animals.”