The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) finalized a regulation that removes animal testing as an option for companies wanting to make human bone health claims for marketing their food and beverage products. The testing included cutting out the ovaries of mice, rats, or hamsters and feeding them a calcium-deficient diet to induce osteoporosis, feeding … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, life sciences company Creative Biolabs has cast aside the cruel and worthless forced swim test. The company confirmed that it will remove the FST from its service platform and no longer offer or perform it, noting that the test is “no longer relevant for drug development efforts.”
Good Foods Group, maker of dips and spreads, has announced they no longer fund gruesome tests on animals through the University of Wisconsin—Madison’s Food Research Institute. The company publicly confirmed it “does not currently donate to the Food Research Institute.” In fewer than 72 hours, Good Foods buckled under the pressure of more than 28,000 … Read more »
At the Society of Toxicology annual meeting, which drew thousands of attendees, PETA scientists chaired sessions, presented posters, and provided educational courses on non-animal methods for testing chemicals. They also participated in mentorship events to help researchers advance their careers in non-animal science.
PETA has secured assurance from Dairy Industries (Jamaica), Old Fashioned Cheese and Great Lakes Cheese that the companies will ensure donations to the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute will exclusively support the non-animal research fund, preventing money from funding cruel tests on animals. PETA, a vegan organization, does not fully endorse either these companies, … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International uses many tools to provide free education on non-animal testing, including hosting and participating in online webinars that become resources for countless researchers. Most recently, it co-hosted a webinar featuring speakers from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the European Commission, which more than 1,000 people registered to attend. This … Read more »
Kewpie Corporation, Asia’s largest producer of mayonnaise, has strengthened its ban against experiments on animals after hearing from PETA. The company’s previous animal testing policy only banned experiments on animals to establish dubious “health claims,” but the company contributed to curiosity-driven tests too, including injecting mice with cancer cells and chemicals before slicing them open. … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and food and beverage companies that we convinced to avoid animal testing, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Food Research Institute has created a new fund that allows corporate sponsors to support research that is entirely animal-free. The fund, titled the “Food Research Institute Programmatic (Non-animal) Support Fund,” has a stated purpose to … Read more »
Based on information PETA provided after exposing the Caucaseco Scientific Research Center in our 18-month damning investigation, two respected journals have taken rare action against the research conglomerate. The journal PlosOne retracted an article by Caucaseco experimenters due to lack of proper permits. And the journal Infection and Immunity of the American Society for Microbiology … Read more »
A high-pressure PETA campaign has convinced the National Watermelon Promotion Board to stop starving, suffocating, killing, and slicing open animals in experiments to promote the sale of watermelons. In letters to its leadership, PETA called out the board for bankrolling the deadly tests on mice and rats. PETA supporters sent 18,000 e-mails urging a ban … Read more »
Tribe 9 Foods, a Madison, Wisconsin-based specialty food company, has stopped funding cruel and pointless experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute after hearing from PETA. Tribe 9 withdrew its support of the institute after PETA informed it that the institute was using the company’s donations to force-feed mice parasite-infested feces, … Read more »
Evansville, Indiana-based company AmeriQual Group—the largest supplier of Meals, Ready-to-Eat to the U.S. military—has stopped funding cruel and pointless experiments on animals at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Food Research Institute after hearing from PETA. AmeriQual and multiple other major food and beverage companies withdrew their support of the institute after PETA informed them that the … Read more »
In India, PETA scientists presented at and helped organize an annual international conference where attendees discussed the latest non-animal toxicity testing approaches. More than 100 attendees from government, industry, research institutes, academia, and animal protection groups participated in discussions. In Germany, another PETA scientist and resident ecotoxicologist presented methods for assessing the toxicity of pesticides … Read more »
Global candy maker Ferrero International—owner of Ferrero Rocher, Nutella, Tic Tac, and more—and North American dairy giant Agropur Cooperative are abandoning cruel experiments after hearing from PETA. The companies made the compassionate commitment by signing PETA’s new Eat Without Experiments pledge, assuring that they “[do] not and shall not conduct, fund, commission, or allow any … Read more »
The 9th Circuit Court issued a landmark decision holding that members of the University of Washington’s animal experimentation oversight committee have no constitutional right to keep their identities secret. The decision in favor of PETA and the Northwest Animal Rights Network reverses a preliminary injunction granted by a Seattle-based United States District Court. This marks … Read more »
