Animal protection organisation granted permission to seek judicial review over cosmetic testing

‘This judicial review is vital to establish whether there is a ban on cosmetic testing on animals in the UK’

(REUTERS)

An animal protection organisation has been given permission to seek judicial review against the Home Office to establish whether there is a ban on cosmetic testing in Britain.

Cruelty Free International (CFI) — a leading animal protection organisation behind the case — argued the government has “effectively” overturned a ban first introduced in 1998.

They claimed the Home Office “seems to be telling the public one thing — that cosmetic animal testing is banned in the UK — and doing something entirely different in practice”.