General Article Where do Britons stand on animal testing?

Topic Selected: Animal Rights Book Volume: 445

A third support its use in medical products, but less than one in ten say the same for cosmetics.

By Connor Ibbetson

Singer Will Young handcuffed himself to the gates of a facility breeding dogs for laboratory experiments yesterday. This follows news from earlier in the year that a ruling from the EU could see animal testing for individual ingredients resumed in the UK for the first time since 1998.

The European Chemical Agency (ECA) ruled in August 2021 that a German firm, Symrise, would nee...

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