Prohibits cosmetic manufacturers or suppliers of cosmetic ingredients from placing any cosmetic or ingredient produced solely for use in cosmetics in an animal's eye or on it's skin for the purpose of measuring the irritancy of such cosmetic or ingredient.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4780
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 27, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prohibiting animal
irritancy tests for cosmetics
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 505-b to read as follows:
3 § 505-b. Animal irritancy tests for cosmetics prohibited. 1. Except as
4 specifically required by federal law or regulation:
5 (a) No cosmetic manufacturer shall conduct or have any other person
6 conduct on its behalf, any test which involves the placing of a cosmetic
7 in an animal's eye or on an animal's skin to measure its irritating
8 effects.
9 (b) On or after January first, two thousand eleven no person shall
10 conduct or have any other person conduct on its behalf any test which
11 involves the placing of a cosmetic ingredient in an animal's eye or on
12 an animal's skin to measure its irritating effects if such ingredient
13 was produced solely for use in a cosmetic.
14 (c) No cosmetic manufacturer shall sell, offer for sale or cause any
15 other person to sell or offer for sale on its behalf a cosmetic which
16 was placed in an animal's eye or on an animal's skin to measure its
17 irritating effects if such procedure occurred any time subsequent to the
18 effective date of this section.
19 2. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have
20 the following meanings:
21 (a) "Animal" means a vertebrate nonhuman animal.
22 (b) "Cosmetic" means articles intended to be rubbed, poured, sprin-
23 kled, or sprayed on, introduced into, or otherwise applied to the human
24 body or any part thereof for cleansing, beautifying, promoting attrac-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 tiveness, or altering the appearance, except that such term shall not
2 include ingredients of such articles and shall not include soap.
3 (c) "Cosmetic manufacturer" means any individual, partnership, corpo-
4 ration, association, or other legal entity that produces a cosmetic for
5 sale to the public.
6 (d) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, associ-
7 ation or other legal entity.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
9 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
