Regulatory Testing

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New Paper by PETA Scientists Tackles Flawed Pharmaceutical Experiments on Animals

In a newly published paper, PETA scientists lay bare a solid plan for ending two of the pharmaceutical industry’s most cruel and pointless experiments on animals.

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June 27, 2024

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Animal-Free Research Boosted by Awards From PETA Science Group

A PETA science group awarded a German researcher working to replace the use of animals in inhalation tests and remove animal parts from educational laboratories.

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June 21, 2024

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James Cromwell Calls Out Government-Funded Experiments on Animals

America’s leading agency for research on mental disorders has spent decades wasting your money. James Cromwell wants you to know what it’s funding instead of finding cures. 

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Differences in Human and Rat Anatomy Should Stop Inhalation Testing on Animals in Its ‘Tracts’

A paper coauthored by PETA scientists shows how the differences between the respiratory tracts of humans and rats affect toxicity testing—and why non-animal tests should be used instead.

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Taxpayers, Beware: Fauci Confesses Spending Your Money Without Checking

Anthony Fauci is the third former or current high-ranking NIH official to admit to spending taxpayer money on foreign laboratories without checking on them.

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USDA Fines Washington Laboratory $5K for Animal Welfare Violations

Pigs, monkeys, and beagles are suffering at Altasciences. Find out what it did to get the feds’ attention and how to help animals now.

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Empathy Over Experimentation: The Case Against the Term ‘Lab Rat’

The term “lab rat” only perpetuates speciesism and condones cruel experiments on animals. Let PETA increase your compassion for rats.

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U.S. Tax Money Pays for Cruel, Deadly, and Fraudulent Foreign Animal Tests

PETA has found even more reasons to urge your legislators to act. Let’s save lives and stop the National Institutes of Health from using our tax money to fund foreign laboratories.

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PETA Science Consortium International Shortlisted for the 2024 Lush Science Prize

PETA Science Consortium International has been shortlisted for the 2024 Lush Science Prize! Learn how its work helps replace the use of animals in toxicity testing.

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A Leap Forward: EPA Encourages Companies to Use Non-Animal Eye Tests

PETA scientists have been working with the EPA for years to replace painful eye irritation tests on rabbits with superior non-animal methods.

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2023’s Biggest Victories for Animals in Labs and How PETA Made Them Happen

In 2023, PETA’s dedicated team worked all year to shut down barbaric laboratories, advance non-animal tests, and expose the cruelty of experiments on animals.

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PETA Scientists Work to Level the Playing Field for Non-Animal Research

Good science doesn’t kill or harm animals, but animal experimentation bias is pervasive in the research community. PETA scientists are helping to eliminate it.

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PETA Scientists’ New Paper Offers Methods to Test Pesticides Without Using Live Animals

Animal tests aren’t good science—here’s how PETA scientists are challenging the status quo and advancing human-relevant testing.

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This doomed animal in a hyperbaric chamber is one of the countless rats used by University of South Florida experimenter Jay Dean to supposedly study oxygen toxicity in humans, even though human-relevant, animal-free methods are widely available.

On Navy Day, It’s Time to Celebrate Sailors by Sinking Pointless Animal Experiments

Killing animals doesn’t help members of the U.S. Navy, so why is the military branch wasting time and money on cruel experiments?

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PETA Science Group Presents Awards to Researchers Embracing Non-Animal Tests

It’s awards season when it comes to advancing animal-free science, and PETA scientists are cheering on these conscientious researchers.

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