PETA scientists highlighted non-animal testing approaches at the 60th annual Society of Toxicology (SOT) meeting, the largest toxicology conference in the world, attracting thousands of attendees each year from government, industry, and academia. In the weeks leading up to this year’s virtual meeting, PETA scientists hosted five webinars through an SOT specialty section on modern … Read more »
The Chinese government announced that it has created a new pathway for cruelty-free cosmetics to be sold in China. As of May 1, 2021, it will allow companies to market most imported “general cosmetics”—like shampoo, body wash, lotion, and makeup—without the usually required animal testing, once those companies take a number of steps and apply for … Read more »
Following recommendations from PETA India, the Bureau of Indian Standards—the national standards body of India—has replaced a lethal test on guinea pigs used to detect anthrax in animal feed with a modern, non-animal one, which will spare the lives of countless guinea pigs.
After hearing from PETA and more than 85,000 of our supporters, the Hass Avocado Board (HAB)—one of the major agricultural commodity research and promotion boards that’s overseen by the U.S. Department of Agriculture—has adopted a new public policy stating that it “does not support, fund, or conduct animal research.” HAB previously sponsored experiments on animals … Read more »
The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) updated its health-food safety testing regulations, which will now prioritize widely recognized non-animal test methods—a landmark move that follows PETA’s recommendation to accept animal-free test methods approved by international regulatory bodies. With the TFDA’s adoption of our recommendation, there should be little to no health-food safety tests on … Read more »
After a meeting with PETA scientists, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a new policy the agency says will spare approximately 750 rats, rabbits, or guinea pigs each year from tests in which pesticides would have been applied to their shaved skin, after which the animals who didn’t die during the tests would have been killed.
After hearing from PETA, the world’s largest fruit and vegetable producer, Dole Food Company, persuaded the Mayo Clinic to divert funds that the company donates to that institution away from deadly experiments on animals and instead toward superior, human-relevant, and animal-free nutrition research. Previously, a recent experimenter who held the David Murdock/Dole Food Company Chair … Read more »
After hearing from PETA and Humane Research Australia, the University of Adelaide has become one of the first universities in Australia to stop subjecting mice and other animals to the cruel forced swim test. Experimenters at the school had published about conducting the bogus test as recently as April of this year.
Following pressure from PETA—which included the submission of a detailed scientific critique at the agency’s request—the Taiwan Food and Drug Administration made a groundbreaking announcement that it has removed animal-testing recommendations and requirements from its draft regulation for companies wanting to make anti-fatigue health claims about their food and beverage products and will instead now … Read more »
Kesha Rose has joined PETA’s Global Beauty Without Bunnies list of companies that don’t test on animals. The collection features high-quality makeup that’s completely cruelty-free (animal test–free and vegan). That means no rabbits, mice, or any other animals were harmed for these bold cosmetics.
PETA scientists persuaded the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission to remove the requirement to inject guinea pigs and mice with vaccines to test for contaminants, sparing thousands of animals each year. They are now working to have the policy expanded to include even more products that still require this cruel test.
After hearing from PETA entities worldwide, Switzerland-based Barry Callebaut—”the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate & cocoa products”—adopted a compassionate new policy banning all experiments on animals unless they are explicitly required by law. Previously, the company had supplied ingredients for experiments that weren’t legally required, but it now joins dozens of other major food … Read more »
Thanks to input from PETA scientists, the Indian government has added non-animal tests, for the first time ever, into its guidelines for testing the safety of agricultural and food products that contain nanomaterials.
Test Subjects—a documentary film from BAFTA Award–winning director Alex Lockwood and produced by PETA—has been nominated for awards and shown at several film festivals. The documentary, which details the gripping stories of three young scientists who questioned the ethics and efficacy of animal experimentation while trying to earn advanced degrees, premiered at the Raindance Film … Read more »
After a two-year open-records fight followed by a lawsuit, PETA released video footage obtained from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst (UMass) showing monkeys filmed by experimenters at four national primate research centers. The 40 hours of footage that UMass released in a legal settlement show deeply distressed monkeys housed in small metal cages, pacing endlessly, tearing … Read more »
