U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Office of Cosmetics and Colors December 2000
Question 5.
"CRUELTY FREE" OR "NOT TESTED IN ANIMALS" MEANS THAT NO ANIMAL TESTING WAS DONE ON THE PRODUCT AND ITS INGREDIENTS.
This is
FALSE!
Even if a product never was tested in animals, there's a very good chance its ingredients were. A company might call its products "cruelty free" because it isn't doing any animal testing on these ingredients now, although the ingredients may have been tested on animals in the past. In some cases, "no
new
animal testing" might be a more accurate claim.
Learn more about "cruelty free" and "no animal testing" claims
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