When the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it was considering reducing the frequency of its inspections if facilities were accredited by private third parties, PETA sprang into action. A representative of the group spoke in opposition at every single listening session across the U.S. that the USDA held on this matter. PETA also … Read more »
PETA India scientists were accepted as members of a critical committee and successfully persuaded the Indian government to update its list of approved tests for drugs manufactured and sold in India. Companies can now use an animal-free test for drug contaminants rather than subjecting rabbits to painful injections, and certain vaccine tests on guinea pigs … Read more »
Following an appeal by PETA India, the government body responsible for overseeing pesticide registrations in India included the group’s scientists on an important committee, leading to reductions in the use of mice, birds, and other animals in pesticide testing.
PETA and Harvard University physicians published a paper in the medical journal Simulation in Healthcare urging the replacement of deadly trauma and biomedical skills training on animals for military service members, surgeons, and medical students with more effective, ethical, and economical human-simulation technology.
After years of scientific input from PETA scientists on animal-free test methods, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will accept non-animal tests to determine whether pesticides and certain chemicals cause skin allergies in humans, sparing thousands of mice and guinea pigs from painful tests.
Following years of pressure from PETA and U.S. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), the U.S. Coast Guard has become the first branch of the military to end the shooting, stabbing, dismembering, and killing of animals in trauma training drills. In public records obtained by PETA, the agency confirmed the ban in writing, adding that it will … Read more »
Scientists from the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. attended the world’s largest international toxicology conference, where they presented research that the Science Consortium is funding to develop non-animal inhalation testing methods, co-chaired a symposium session, and led a continuing education course focused on ways to replace animals in chemical testing.
PETA has persuaded the international vitamin and food-ingredient company Riken Vitamin to end all its painful and deadly health experiments on animals. Those experiments included force-feeding mice seaweed and saffron extracts, cutting off the blood supply to the retinas of mice, and infecting other mice with avian flu.
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Department of Defense, and others co-authored a paper published in the journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, detailing how to replace animal-poisoning tests.
After receiving extensive input from PETA and others, a plan was put forward by 16 federal government agencies to replace the use of animals used in toxicity testing. Implementing this roadmap has the potential to prevent millions of animals from suffering and dying in chemical and drug tests.
