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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
Thanks to an award from PETA Science Consortium International e.V., two early-career scientists attended the tenth annual iteration of a prestigious non-animal toxicology training course in Luxembourg. The course allowed them to learn about and gain hands-on experience with non-animal tests for assessing a chemical’s ability to cause eye, skin, or lung irritation, skin allergies, … Read more »
PETA scientists, alongside a team of co-authors from 22 different organizations, published a paper on the information laboratories should report when conducting an animal-free test that can assess the effects of chemicals on human lungs. This paper helps increase its acceptance by regulatory agencies worldwide and save animals from deadly inhalation tests.
