This is the team that has grown human skin from the leftovers of cosmetic operations. The resulting living epidermis, called Episkin, is used in tiny samples to test cosmetics, avoiding the need to use animals. This is significant because, from next year, the EU Cosmetics Directive will ban the use of animals in testing cosmetics and their ingredients.
L’Oréal, the cosmetics company that runs the lab, secured a breakthrough last May when Episkin, which has taken more than 20 years and £500 million to develop, was awarded validation by a European Commission regulator as an official alternative to animal testing for skin irritancy. The regulator ruled it as at least as good as a rabbit test.
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i think animal testing is cruel wrong n it should be band all over the world i mean why sould they suffer because of our wants cause thats what most animal testing is for humans wants and some-times our needs like medicine but idk i still dont think its not right for us to torcher them so we can take a advil or aspren just to feel a lil better when we get a headache i think we could do without some of these medicines cause these poor animals dident do any-thing but there paying cause we get a lil sick sometimes or whateverits just wrong n we need to do somthing about it and SOON THEY DONT DESERVE ANY-THING BUT TO BE LOVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!