ICL Performance Products Joins Nationwide Push for Animal-Free Research

ICL Performance Products— an Israel-based global specialty minerals company headquartered in St. Louis—has heeded PETA’s call to stop funding cruel experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute, which pays experimenters to conduct invasive and deadly tests on animals related to food and food ingredients. After hearing from PETA, the institute changed its sponsorship policy and created the “Food Research Institute Programmatic (Non-animal) Support Fund,” which allows sponsors to divert their donations from animal testing. ICL Performance Products joins PepsiCo, Inc., Campbell Soup Company, and 19 other sponsors that have either directed their donations to the animal-free fund or cut off sponsorship entirely.