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They are as follows:

1. BWC imposes a January 1990 fixed cut-off date (with regard to the use of animal tested ingredients) on companies wishing to be included on the BWC approved product guide (we will consider a company's self-imposed date, provided it is not less than 5 years prior to application and the company commits itself to complying with the chosen date in the future) and neither the products, nor the ingredients contained therein, may have been tested on animals after that date.
2. Products may not contain substances which have been obtained as a result of the suffering or death of an animal, specifically to obtain such substance.
3. Written assurance must be obtained (by the applicant company) that the company, as well as its own subsidiaries, parent company and other subsidiary companies of the parent company, have not commissioned any form of live animal testing, on individual ingredients, or on any of their finished products since the cut-off date and furthermore, written assurances must be obtained from the ingredient supply companies, that specific ingredients, contained in the products, have not been so tested by them since the cut-off date.
4. Parent companies and their subsidiaries must comply with these criteria, as any company, whether acceptable on its own or not, will be contributing profits to the unacceptable parent company and its subsidiaries (e.g. Body Shop/L'Oreal).
5. BWC does not accept the use of ingredients that have been required by law to be tested on animals, after the cut-off date, or the use of animal test data that has been obtained after that date.