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 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.
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.
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.
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. chose Viviana Stephanie Costa Gagosian, a student seeking her master’s degree in genetics at the Federal University of Paraná in Brazil, as the winner of its Award for Innovative Approaches in Science. Gagosian was honored at the Summer School on Innovative Approaches in Science, a virtual school on non-animal … Read more »
Funding from the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. contributed towards the creation of a first-of-its-kind three-dimensional model that can be used to study the effects of chemicals on the deepest part of the human lung. This model could prevent tens of thousands of rats and mice from being confined to small tubes and forced to … Read more »
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized a policy to no longer require a test in which birds are fed pesticide-laced food for days before being killed, sparing approximately 700 mallards and quails each year. The draft policy was based on the results of a paper that the agency coauthored with the PETA International Science Consortium … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. co-authored a paper with a government agency that will help end the use of animals to produce antibodies—a process in which hundreds of thousands of animals each year are injected with foreign substances and then are repeatedly bled or endure needles being inserted into their abdomens to extract the … Read more »
The first steps of a project funded by the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. have succeeded in creating fully human-derived antibodies capable of blocking the poisonous toxin that causes diphtheria. These antibodies can end the 100-year-old method of injecting horses repeatedly with the diphtheria toxin and then draining huge amounts of their blood in order … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. co-authored a paper on a non-animal method that measures the amount of nanomaterials in human cells. Nanomaterials are tiny particles found in products such as electronics and clothing, and this method can help scientists figure out if the amount of nanomaterials present is toxic instead of forcing animals to … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. awarded a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency toxicologist and an engineer in cellular biology from Luxembourg travel grants to attend the Institute for In Vitro Sciences’ Practical Methods for In Vitro Toxicology Workshop. The annual award has sent several young scientists to this workshop to learn about the latest non-animal … Read more »
The PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. published a paper on a project that it’s working on with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a non-animal testing laboratory, and personal-lubricant companies to replace the use of rabbits with human skin cells in FDA-required tests for personal lubricants. In these tests, rabbits are restrained and lubricant … Read more »
A report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office credited PETA scientists with working with federal agencies to promote the use of non-animal test methods and urged federal agencies like the National Institutes of Health to evaluate and let the public know how well they’re doing in reducing animal tests—something PETA has been calling on … Read more »
As a result of a paper coauthored by scientists from the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the EPA has drafted a policy that will allow companies to submit a waiver for a test in which birds are fed pesticide-laced food for days before being killed. The peer-reviewed paper, … Read more »
After 20 years of PETA protests, campaigns, and dedicated science work, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would stop funding and requesting tests on mammals by 2035. The EPA also committed to shorter-term goals such as providing millions of dollars in funding to advance non-animal testing, reducing funding and requests for mammalian … Read more »
