Representative Jim Moran, Northern Virginia Democrat, has introduced a Bill that would prohibit animal testing in the U.S. cosmetics industry and phase out the sale of cosmetics tested on animals in foreign countries. Animal rights organisations have warmly applauded, however there is hardly any chance that this text be enacted.

If it would be enacted, The Humane Cosmetics Act, H.R. 4148, would make it unlawful for anyone to conduct or commission cosmetic animal testing in the U.S., and would prohibit selling, offering for sale or transporting any cosmetics in interstate commerce if the final product or any component was developed or manufactured using animal testing. Bans on animal-tested cosmetics have been implemented in the 28 states of the European Union, and in Israel.