Victories: Regulatory Testing

The EPA dropped a plan that would have required manufacturers of chemicals produced in high volumes to conduct animal tests.

The body that manages the cleanliness of shellfish for consumption approved of a method that uses tissue from one animal in place of 200 live animals.

February 2014 The European organization that makes the official recommendations about the use of non-animal testing methods has recommended a new method that’ll replace the use of mice and guinea pigs in painful experiments that aim to determine whether a chemical causes skin allergies. The organization adopted several of PETA’s recommendations, as seen in its … Read more »