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Page 3 of 3 The situation is much more complicated regarding Israeli detergents and cosmetics, and consumers will find various bunny symbols in different sizes and poses, none of them the CCIC bunny. The reason is simple: Israel is not a CCIC member, so Israeli companies may not use the logo.
"There is no legislation in Israel that regulates the marking of products that were not tested on animals, and there is also no voluntary body supervising the matter," says Dr. Shmuel Becher, a consumer law expert at the Peres Academic Center in Rehovot. "Therefore there is no supervision - not by the state nor by a third party. All there is, is a declaration by the company claiming that the products or the ingredients contained in them have not been tested on animals, without any external supervision or control."
According to Becher, this may mislead consumers twice. They may wrongly assume there is a controlling body behind the logo, and they might confuse an independent manufacturer's bunny with the CCIC bunny.
Can one trust the Israeli companies that stamp their products with their own bunnies? There is no definite answer, although according to the Israeli Society for the Abolition of Vivisection: "We believe the absolute majority of companies that distribute their products in Israel and carry the bunny logo do meet the appropriate criteria."
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