Following a PETA India investigation documenting the abuse of thousands of horses, donkeys, and mules in antitoxin production, the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. is funding the development of a non-animal replacement for the diphtheria antitoxin that’s made by repeatedly injecting horses with toxins and drawing large volumes of their blood. See here.
The American Chemical Society invited the director of PETA’s Regulatory Testing Department, who is also the associate director of the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd., to brief congressional representatives and their staff on animal-free testing methods. She spoke alongside officials from Dow Chemical Company and Johns Hopkins University. The briefing was standing room only. See … Read more »
When a cruelty-free company owner contacted PETA for help with an overseas regulatory agency that wanted him to conduct several animal tests, PETA’s scientists jumped into action and provided him with the information that he needed in order to push back against the requirement. As a result, the agency withdrew its demand for the animal … Read more »
Following input from PETA India and PETA U.S. scientists, the number of rabbits used in Draize eye testing will be dramatically reduced after an Indian advisory board recommended that validated non-animal tests be used instead for new drug registrations. See here.
After PETA spent years campaigning for and promoting non-animal testing methods, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act was signed into law in 2016. By modernizing the American system of chemical toxicity testing and requiring, for the first time, that the Environmental Protection Agency reduce and replace the use of animals, … Read more »
March 6, 2016 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced plans to stop requiring that animals be used in tests that subject them to painful irritation and death caused by toxic chemicals absorbed through the skin. The EPA is exploring ways to change its pesticide testing and classification system to align with those of other … Read more »
March 4, 2016 Following discussions with PETA’s scientists, Health Canada stated that it would end its requirement of year-long testing on dogs to study pesticide effects. Dogs used in these cruel tests were forced to eat pesticide-laced food or inhale pesticide fumes every day for a year before being killed and dissected. PETA provided evidence … Read more »
June 1, 2015 PETA scientists and the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. intervened to appeal a European testing case in which the lives of 1,300 animals were at stake. The appeals board ruled in our favor and set a new standard by requiring that all existing data be considered before requiring animal testing. This change … Read more »
February 28, 2015 A groundbreaking study by PETA scientists, published in the prestigious Journal of Medical Ethics, determined that animal use at leading federally funded U.S. laboratories rose by a staggering 73 percent in recent years—despite growing public opposition to animal experimentation, mounting evidence that results from animal studies are often not applicable to humans, … Read more »
January 30, 2015 Accreditation by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) International has long been trumpeted as being the “gold standard” of animal welfare in laboratories—even though investigations by PETA have documented miserable conditions and abysmal treatment of animals in AAALAC-accredited laboratories. In a first-of-its-kind study, PETA scientists analyzed government … Read more »
December 2014 When PETA U.K. learned that the agency responsible for overseeing the largest animal testing program in the world had failed to investigate numerous cases in which seemingly avoidable animal testing had been conducted, PETA U.K., with the help of PETA U.S. scientists, submitted a detailed official complaint. After two years of filing amended … Read more »
July 2014 Thanks to efforts by the PETA International Science Consortium Ltd. and its members, the European Commission appears to be set to reduce the number of animals used in each reproductive toxicity test from 2,600 to 1,500, sparing more than 15% of the animals slated to be used in Europe’s REACH program—the largest animal … Read more »
July 2014 U.S. federal laws require that every batch of rabies vaccine be tested to ensure its potency. This means that large numbers of mice are subjected to extremely painful experiments, which are often so inaccurate they have to be repeated several times in order to get a meaningful result, killing as many as 70,000 … Read more »
