Mr Adam Vaughan writes

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A refusal to agree a cut-off date for animal testing has left green
cleaning brand Ecover stripped of its Vegan Society logo, according to
a recent joint statement.

The Belgian company's biodegradable and phosphate-free products -
which include washing-up liquid, washing powder and more - are tested
on water fleas and rabbit blood to detect danger, respectively, to
aquatic life and human skin.

While the EU definition of animal testing doesn't include
invertebrates such as water fleas, the Vegan Society's founding
criteria does.

The main sticking point between the charity and eco cleaning business
was Ecover's refusal to submit to a cut-off date for specific products
to be free of animal-tested products.

Instead, the green cleaning co is continuing a 'five year rolling
rule' (more on Ecover's site here) that means although it pledges not
to use today's animal-tested ingredients in its products for the next
five years, it could theoretically include them in 2013.

Remaining stocks of Ecover products will continue to bear the Vegan
Society logo, but new ones will not carry it. The society says: 'We
hope Ecover will continue to develop non-animal test methods and
environmentally sound products which will enable us to work together
again in the future.'

Lisa Drummy of Beanie's Health Foods suggests: 'Ecover may soon find
themselves the subjects of a mass boycott by ethical, animal friendly
shoppers.'

Ecover, in its defence, points out that only 0.5ml of rabbit blood is
used to test one new product, and the shortage of human red blood
cells makes the use of human blood 'unethical'.












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