Following collaborations with PETA scientists and other experts, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics published a document outlining how non-animal tests can—and should—be used to assess industrial chemicals for skin irritation. The document prioritizes the use of reliable and human-relevant non-animal methods over those that use live rabbits to assess … Read more »
After hearing from PETA, Taiwan’s FDA, the government body responsible for regulating food safety, has updated its food safety rules for novel foods, prioritizing animal-free testing methods and allowing companies to use existing safety data of sufficiently similar ingredients instead of conducting cruel and pointless experiments on animals for the target ingredients. Historically, food safety … Read more »
Following years of collaboration with PETA scientists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its recommitment to ending tests on animals. PETA’s Managing Director of Regulatory Toxicology, Dr. Amy Clippinger, joined the EPA Administrator and spoke at the public announcement. This commitment to increase reliance on non-animal testing approaches echoes longstanding sentiments of the agency … Read more »
A paper co-authored by PETA scientists shows that human cell–based vaginal tissue models have the potential to replace rabbits when assessing the safety of personal lubricants. This non-animal method delivers data that is predictive of human health effects, reproducible across laboratories, and ranks personal lubricants by vaginal irritation potential.
Pressure from PETA supporters has once again saved animals’ lives around the world as the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) has announced it will no longer recommend that companies conduct cruel experiments on animals to establish dubious claims about digestion for marketing food and beverage products sold in Taiwan. More than 25,000 PETA supporters … Read more »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) spared 1,600 animals from deadly chemical tests after successfully applying a scientific approach created by the EPA, PETA scientists, and other experts. The adoption of a scientific approach co-developed by PETA scientists to replace rats and mice in cancer tests saves hundreds of animals every time it’s implemented. This … Read more »
After years of persuasion, evidence sharing, and recent meetings with Food and Drug Administration officials, PETA scientists commended the agency’s proposal that recommends pharmaceutical developers no longer use primates, dogs, and pigs who are routinely killed in certain antibody tests to meet FDA requirements.
Thanks in part to funding provided by PETA Science Consortium International e.V., biology students at Technische Universität Berlin ditched fetal bovine serum and antibodies bled from animals in favor of cutting-edge, cruelty-free science. The team running this laboratory has published a paper that will help other universities adopt this graduate-level course, enabling even more students … Read more »
At international toxicology conferences around the world, PETA scientists made their mark among thousands of attendees, promoting state-of-the-art testing methods. Amongst an audience of government regulators, scientific experts, and budding young professionals, they gave 15 presentations and co-chaired 7 sessions, sharing groundbreaking developments in non-animal toxicity testing. With decades of experience amongst the team, PETA … Read more »
Health Canada released a strategy prioritizing the use of non-animal tests to protect humans and the environment from chemicals. PETA scientists submitted recommendations on the strategy’s initial draft to encourage stronger language and will continue to work with Health Canada to replace chemical tests on animals with reliable, human-relevant methods.
During a joint National Institutes of Health and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) workshop, FDA leadership reiterated that companies should use more non-animal methods and listed immediate actions the FDA can take to make this happen. Among the agency’s high-priority items were those that PETA scientists have advocated for years, including replacing animal testing … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. awarded a travel grant to a PhD candidate at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment to attend the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre Summer School on Non-Animal Approaches in Science. At the summer school, the winner had the opportunity to learn about non-animal tests that can … Read more »
A paper, concluding a series of papers co-authored by PETA scientists on eye irritation testing for chemicals at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, details additional methods for testing pesticides without using live rabbits. In addition to PETA scientists, the paper’s co-authors include representatives from a government agency, a non-animal testing laboratory, and others.
Thanks to sponsorships from PETA Science Consortium International e.V. and Colgate-Palmolive, six dedicated scientists traveled from India to the U.S. for state-of-the-art training on how to test chemicals for toxic effects without using animals. To date, the Science Consortium has sponsored more than 40 scientists to attend this training program run by a prestigious non-animal … Read more »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the agency would move to replace tests on animals in the development of monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs with more effective, human-relevant methods. PETA scientists are poised to leverage this decision, which is crucial for advancing the antibody-based treatment developed by PETA Science Consortium International e.V. … Read more »
