Taiwan FDA Ends Dental Tests on Animals After Hearing From PETA

The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) finalized a regulation that removes animal testing recommendations for companies wanting to make human dental health claims for marketing their food and beverage products. The testing included feeding rats sugar water and bacteria that caused dental decay, swabbing their mouths, feeding them the test food products, killing them, and dissecting their mouths. The TFDA now requires only safe and effective human tests for this purpose. This decision followed e-mails to agency officials from more than 52,000 PETA supporters opposing animal experiments.