Cllr Helen Dick supports National Cruelty-Free Week
Dundee Liberal Democrat councillor for Strathmartine Ward, Cllr Helen Dick, has today (Thursday 20th July) lent her support to National Cruelty-Free Week, in the promotion of cruelty-free cosmetics, toiletries and household products and their ingredients.
National Cruelty-Free Week (17th - 23rd July 2006) aims to inform shoppers that animals are still used for testing cosmetics and household products. It also aims to help them avoid products that have been animal tested by encouraging them to look out for the BUAV rabbit and stars logo that manufacturers adhering to the Standard may use.
Helen said, ''I am very pleased to support the aims of the week in helping to promote cruelty-free products that are approved under the Humane Cosmetics Standard and the Humane Household Products Standard. Millions of animals across the world still endure painful experiments to test cosmetics, which is wholly unacceptable.''
The Humane Cosmetics Standard and the Humane Household Products Standard are the world's only internationally recognised approval schemes for beauty and household products that are genuinely not tested on animals. To join the schemes, each company must prove they don't conduct or commission animal testing, and apply a strict fixed cut-off date after which no animal testing must have taken place either within the company or throughout the supply chain.