Top 10 Pharma Company Roche Bans Forced Swim Test

After hearing from PETA, PETA Switzerland, and PETA Germany, Roche Pharmaceuticals has confirmed that it has ended its use of the forced swim test, in which small animals are dropped into inescapable beakers of water and must frantically swim to keep from drowning. Between 2001 and 2018, Roche published at least 11 papers that described its use of the test in experiments involving more than 800 mice and rats.