The European Parliament in Strasbourg will approve a new law on Wednesday to ban the sale of virtually all animal-tested cosmetic products in the European Union from 2009.
Following ten years of delicate negotiations and strong lobbying from the cosmetics industry, animal testing, currently only forbidden in the UK, Belgium, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands, will be outlawed in all fifteen member states.
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