© Sania Ristic 2026 — Licensed under CC BY‑NC‑ND 4.0 01 June 2026 In response to the 2023 European citizens’ initiative (ECI) ‘Save Cruelty-Free Cosmetics – Commit to a Europe Without Animal Testing,’ the European Commission (EC) has published its 'Roadmap towards phasing out animal testing for chemical safety assessments'. This response arrives against the backdrop of more than 15 million animals being used in animal experiments between 2015-2023 by companies to prove that