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EU publishes roadmap to reduce reliance on animal testing

The European Commission has adopted a roadmap to phase out the use of animals in chemical safety assessments, including for ...
Inverse

Are We Near The End Of Animal Testing?

For thousands of years, humans have studied animals’ bodies to better understand our own. But using other animals as a proxy for humans is far from perfect. There are ethical issues for one, and they ...
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Animal Testing: Which Products Still Use Animals and What Are the Alternatives?

Testing products on animals became an industry standard in the cosmetic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries nearly a century ago. Since that time, it has become clear that these tests cause ...
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Is animal-free testing for food on the horizon?

The European Food Safety Authority (ESFA) develops a new platform to model and predict the toxicity of chemicals, signalling the potential to end animal testing. Safety assessments to evaluate the ...
RAPS

EMA proposes new method to reduce animal drug testing

Following the trend of other regulators, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is taking steps to reduce the need for animal testing. The agency has issued a draft qualification opinion for a new ...
CNN

The push to end animal testing is gaining steam, but technology can’t fill the gap yet

A social media post from the US Food and Drug Administration this week shows a big-eyed macaque staring out from behind bars. “Some drugs use 144 monkeys on average for preclinical testing,” the post ...