After discussions with PETA, DSM Nutritional Products—which manufactures ingredients used in nutritional supplements and personal-care products—has confirmed that it will no longer use the widely discredited forced swim test, in which small animals are placed in inescapable beakers filled with water and made to swim to keep from drowning. DSM previously subjected over 200 mice … Read more »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. collaborated to publish a paper showing that the agency can confidently assess the risk of pesticides to humans and the environment without poisoning birds in a cruel test. This test involved feeding birds pesticide-laced food for days and then monitoring them for … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. named Patrícia Zoio, a Ph.D. student from the NOVA University of Lisbon, the winner of its Early-Career Scientist Award to attend the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre Summer School program on non-animal tests. Zoio, who’s developing a skin-on-a-chip model that could replace the use of animals in long-term skin … Read more »
After talks with PETA, pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has banned the use of the forced swim test, in which mice or other small animals are dropped into beakers of water and must swim frantically to keep from drowning. In the last few years, the company and one of its subsidiaries have written about using … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. reached thousands of scientists with information on advanced, non-animal chemical testing methods at the Society of Toxicology annual meeting—the largest toxicology conference in the world. The Consortium was also recognized for a paper it co-authored on testing the effects of inhaled substances on human lungs without using animals.
Procter & Gamble’s iconic Herbal Essences brand has been added to PETA’s Beauty Without Bunnies list of cruelty-free companies! And even though Herbal Essences is sold in China, where tests on animals are required for many products, the brand has worked within Chinese regulations to make sure that such tests will not be done on … Read more »
A whistleblower reported to PETA that for decades, during the annual Pediatric Flexible Bronchoscopy Postgraduate Course taught at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), physicians inserted cables into the throats and lungs of hundreds of live cats in an attempt to practice the way to perform this medical procedure in human patients, despite the … Read more »
When chocolate giant The Hershey Company provided cocoa ingredients and data analysis for an experiment in which mice were killed, it violated its own policy—which had been put in place after earlier discussions with PETA—not to conduct or fund animal testing in order to make health claims about its products. After PETA contacted the company … Read more »
After extensive discussions with PETA, the world’s largest cereal maker, Kellogg Company, has adopted a new public policy officially ending its cruel and deadly animal tests, which it had pursued in an attempt to establish questionable human health claims. From 1995 to 2016, Kellogg conducted, funded, or contributed to experiments that used more than 1,200 … Read more »
Several hundred scientists and government regulators tuned in to a webinar presented by the PETA International Science Consortium and an agrochemical company on testing the effects of chemicals on human lungs without using animals. The webinar drew more viewers than any previous one in the series.
After meeting with PETA, AbbVie has become the first pharmaceutical company to ban the use of the forced swim test—in which mice, rats, and other small animals are placed in beakers filled with water from which they can’t escape and are forced to swim in order to avoid drowning. The company posted this landmark new … Read more »
Bloomberg News solicited and published a historical review of PETA’s role in revolutionizing chemical testing over the past two decades. In this informative article, PETA’s head of regulatory testing looks back at our initial efforts to bring changes to a field that kills many millions of animals but which no other group was willing to … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. teamed up with biotech company Epithelix to award innovative researchers free 3-dimensional models of the human respiratory tract. These models, which are made from human cells, can be used to test cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, pesticides, and household products without using animals. After receiving applications from around the world, … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Milwaukee-based Sensient Technologies Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of flavors and fragrances and the world’s largest manufacturer of certified food colors, has enacted a new policy banning all animal tests that are not required by law. Prior to this, in 2018, Sensient contributed to experiments in which 64 mice were injected … Read more »
After discussions with PETA, Nagase & Co.—a trading firm based in Japan that deals in a wide range of products, including cosmetics and functional food ingredients—has agreed not to fund, conduct, or commission tests on animals for the purpose of making health claims about its food products unless explicitly required by law to do so. … Read more »
