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.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, which publishes guidance on the chemical tests used by its 38 member countries, published an approach that PETA scientists coauthored with other experts that assesses the cancer risk of pesticides without force-feeding them to mice or rats for their entire lives, sparing hundreds of animals each time this … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. awarded researchers free equipment and human cell–based tissue models that can be used to study the effects of substances on human lungs instead of using animals in deadly inhalation tests. The Science Consortium also won an award for a presentation at an international conference, shining a light on how researchers … Read more »
Antibodies serve as essential research tools, but many researchers produce them using animals instead of adopting modern non-animal technology. As experts in the field, PETA Science Consortium International e.V. was invited to publish a paper in a scientific journal focused on advancing the use of animal-free antibodies.
A paper coauthored by PETA Science Consortium International e.V. and published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology shows how differences in the respiratory tracts of humans and rats make tests on rats an unreliable predictor of what happens when humans inhale a substance—and why non-animal tests should be used instead. The paper will be referenced around … Read more »
PETA regulatory scientists attended the year’s most important meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, where the 38 member countries vote on tests that companies will use to meet international regulatory testing requirements. Each year, PETA regulatory scientists are integral in reviewing and commenting on these tests, including several new and updated non-animal … Read more »
At the annual Society of Toxicology meeting, the world’s largest toxicology event of the year, drawing more than 5,000 attendees, PETA regulatory scientists chaired sessions, presented posters, and provided educational courses on non-animal methods for testing chemicals. They also participated in mentorship events to help early-career researchers advance their careers in non-animal toxicology testing.
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. awarded Dr. Jens Kurreck, a professor of applied biochemistry at Technische Universität Berlin, funding to help him create a laboratory that introduces students to the practice of using cells that aren’t reliant on animal-derived ingredients. A scientist in Belgium also received the Science Consortium’s Early-Career Scientist Award for her work … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. coauthored a paper with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other collaborators on methods that can replace the use of live rabbits to test the effects of chemicals on human eyes. Building on this work, the EPA office that regulates industrial chemicals released a document encouraging companies to employ … Read more »
PETA Science Consortium International e.V. donated equipment, worth $120,000 in total, to two organizations that develop or conduct exclusively non-animal tests. One piece of equipment is used to assess the potential of chemicals to cause skin allergies or changes to DNA, while the other is used to assess the likelihood that inhaled chemicals will cause … Read more »
PETA scientists chaired sessions and delivered oral and poster presentations at the 12th World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences in Niagara Falls, Ontario. At this premier conference, they highlighted how to replace the use of fish in ecotoxicity testing, rats in inhalation toxicity testing, and rabbits in eye irritation testing.
