"Mexico’s Senate unanimously votes to ban animal testing for cosmetic products", 10 september 2021

...Mexican Senate approved a reform to the General Health Law to prohibit the use of animal testing for cosmetic products. Mexico will thus become the first country in North America and the 41st country globally to ban these tests.

In an unanimous vote (103 votes in favor), the senators approved the changes proposed by the Chamber of Deputies to the project aiming at prohibiting animal tests for cosmetic products. The bill is derived from an initiative presented, in April 2019, by Senator Ricardo Monreal Ávila.

As a consequence, the country’s General Health Law (Ley General de Salud) will prohibit manufacturing, importing or marketing cosmetic products that have been tested on animals or contains ingredients or combinations of ingredients that have been tested on animals...

The bill was also supported by Lush, Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Avon and others in the beauty industry, who are working with HSI globally through the Animal-Free Safety Assessment (AFSA) toward policy alignment, and training measures to support smaller companies and government authorities in transitioning from animal testing to state-of-the-art non-animal methods, which are readily available...