Pressure mounts on L’Oréal to stop animal testing in China

Published: 21-Sep-2017
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Humane Society International issues public call urging L’Oréal to stop testing on animals in order to sell in China

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Pressure mounts on L’Oréal to stop animal testing in China

L’Oréal is under renewed pressure from animal rights organisation Humane Society International (HSI) to support its efforts to bring a global end to animal testing for cosmetics.

HSI has issued a public call to the beauty giant, which it claims has ignored six written

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