Section 505. Animal irritancy tests prohibited

1.  No manufacturer or
  contract  testing  facilities  shall  conduct  traditional  animal  test
  methods  within  this  state  for  which an appropriate alternative test
  method  has  been  scientifically  validated  and  recommended  by   the
  Inter-Agency  Coordinating  Committee  for the Validation of Alternative
  Methods (ICCVAM) and adopted by the regulation by the  relevant  federal
  agency   or  agencies  or  program  within  an  agency  responsible  for
  regulating the specific product or activity for which the test is  being
  conducted.
    2.  Nothing  in  this  section  shall  prohibit  the  conduct  of  any
  alternative nonanimal test  method  for  the  testing  of  any  product,
  product  formulation, chemical, or ingredient that is not recommended by
  ICCVAM.
    3. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the conduct of animal  tests
  to  comply  with  the  requirements  of  state agencies. Nothing in this
  section shall prohibit the conduct of animal tests to  comply  with  the
  requirements  of  federal  agencies  whenever  the  federal agency staff
  concludes that the alternative nonanimal test does not assure the health
  or safety of consumers.
    4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,  the  exclusive  remedy
  for enforcing this section shall be a civil action for injunctive relief
  brought  by  the  attorney  general.  If  the  court determines that the
  attorney general is the prevailing party in the enforcement action, such
  prevailing party may also recover costs,  attorneys  fees  and  a  civil
  penalty not to exceed one thousand dollars in that action.
    5.  This  section shall not apply to any animal test conducted for the
  purpose of medical research.
    6. For the purposes of this section, the following  terms  shall  have
  the following meanings:
    (a) "Animal" means a vertebrate nonhuman animal.
    (b)  "Contract  testing  facility"  means any individual, partnership,
  corporation,  association,  or  other  legal  relationship  that   tests
  chemicals, ingredients, product formulations, or products in this state.
    (c)  "ICCVAM"  means  the  Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee for the
  Validation of Alternative Methods,  a  federal  committee  comprised  of
  representatives  from  fourteen federal regulatory or research agencies,
  including the Food and  Drug  Administration,  Environmental  Protection
  Agency,  and  Consumer  Products  Safety  Commission,  that  reviews the
  validity of alternative test  methods.  The  committee  is  the  federal
  mechanism  for  recommending appropriate, valid test methods to relevant
  federal agencies.
    (d) "Manufacturer" means  any  individual,  partnership,  corporation,
  association,  or  other  legal  relationship  that  produces  chemicals,
  ingredients, product formulations, or products in this state.
    (e)  "Medical  research"  means  research  related  to   the   causes,
  diagnosis,  treatment,  control  or  prevention  of  physical  or mental
  diseases and impairments of  humans  and  animals,  or  related  to  the
  development  of  biomedical  products,  devices  or  drugs as defined in