A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has reintroduced legislation to push the Food and Drug Administration to adopt modern alternatives to animal testing. The bill would require the FDA to speed up its ...

The Physicians Committee works with government and industry to replace the use of animal tests with modern methods to test the safety of cosmetics, chemicals, pesticides, drugs, and other products.

The US National Academy of Sciences released a report in 2007 envisioning a future in which animals would largely disappear from toxicity testing programs. The report, drafted by a panel of experts, ...

Advocates say the unneeded animals deserve to feel the sun on their faces and grass under their feet after a lifetime in ...

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There are more than 100,000 chemicals in consumer products. For the vast majority, there is very little information about their toxicity. Traditionally, researchers will test chemicals of interest in ...

The US Department of Agriculture on Tuesday announced it would no longer use cats in research that, according to a watchdog group, involved forced "cannibalism" and resulted in over 3,000 of the ...

An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo ... and some invertebrates such as octopuses are defined as “animals” by European legislation governing ...

Replacing animal tests does not mean putting human patients at risk. It also does not mean halting medical progress. Instead, replacing animals used in testing will improve the quality as well as the ...

Three federal agencies are joining forces in an effort to advance toxicity testing to the next level, with the hope of eventually shifting from animal experimentation to high-throughput in vitro ...

New Hampshire Kid Governor Jade Adams shakes Secretary of State David Scanlan hands after he presented her with the document ...