Botulinum Toxin: Animal Experiments

(asked on 18th August 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to ban the use of animals in the testing of botox.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 23rd September 2021

Cosmetic testing on animals was banned in the United Kingdom in 1998 and household products have not been tested on animals in the UK since 2011, with such testing formally banned in 2015.

Botox (Botulinum toxin) is regulated as a medicine in the UK. Unlike many biological medicines, a validated cell-based release assay has been approved for botulinum toxin in the UK and does not require the use of animals in the testing of Botox. There is no plan to alter this policy currently.

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