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Animal Tests
Tests that use animals to assess the safety of chemicals and products such as cosmetics, pesticides and pharmaceutical drugs are still quite common. Although testing requirements differ from country to country and sector to sector, new ingredients that require safety assessment will very likely be
Changing Global Test Guidelines for Chemicals and Drugs
The International Councils on Animal Protection in OECD and Pharmaceutical Programmes (ICAPO and ICAPPP) are umbrella associations through which animal protection organisations, including HSI, interact with global chemical and pharmaceutical regulators who meet under the auspices of the Organisation
Alternatives in Product Testing
Alternatives to the use of animals in product testing include the elimination of redundant or needless study requirements, the replacement of animal tests with non-animal methods, and the modification of animal-based tests to both reduce the number of animals used and to minimise pain and distress
Alternatives in Scientific Research
In contrast to product testing, in which some animal use is required by law, there is no law requiring the use of animals to study basic biology, or the pathology and treatment of human illness. Here, animal experiments are a carry-over from the early days of biology and medicine. Increasingly
Costs of Animal and Non-Animal Testing
Some animal tests take months or years to conduct and analyze (e.g., 4-5 years, in the case of rodent cancer studies), at a cost of hundreds of thousands—and sometimes millions—of dollars per substance examined (e.g., $2 to $4 million per two-species lifetime cancer study). The inefficiency and
Animal Models of Human Disease
Basic and applied biological research is responsible for the greatest proportion of animal use in laboratory experiments, accounting for approximately three-quarters of the estimated 115+ million annual total worldwide. Attempts to model human diseases in other animal species—whether to study the
Animal Use Statistics
Only a small proportion of countries collect and publish data concerning their use of animals for testing and research, but it is estimated that more than 115 million animals—including mice, rats, birds, fish, rabbits, guinea pigs, farm animals, dogs, cats, and non-human primates—are used and/or
Call for proposals: Progress in human disease research
Background BioMed21 is an initiative by Humane Society International and The Humane Society of the United States to support strategic scientific dialogue regarding the potential of extending the U.S. National Research Council vision of 21 st century toxicology to the wider field of biosciences. One
Convincing Europe to "REACH" Beyond Animal Testing
The European chemicals law, REACH (short for Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals), includes a commitment that animal testing will only be carried out as "a last resort," as well as a legal obligation to regularly update testing requirements to reduce and replace the use of
Be Cruelty-Free Friends
The following celebrities support Humane Society International's/The Humane Society of the United States' Be Cruelty-Free campaign, a global effort to end animal testing for cosmetics and personal care products. Join them at hsicanada.ca/becrueltyfree. Ke$ha “True beauty doesn’t come from cruelty
Companies, Politicians and Celebrities from Around the World Are Pledging to Be Cruelty-Free
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Dove and The Body Shop unite with the world’s leading animal protection groups and call on the EU to save cruelty-free cosmetics in Europe
Dove and The Body Shop have joined PETA, Cruelty Free Europe, Humane Society International/Europe, Eurogroup for Animals and the ECEAE (representing a total of 100 member organisations from 26 EU member states*) to urgently mobilise 1 million European citizens and save cruelty-free cosmetics in
Dove und The Body Shop fordern gemeinsam mit den weltweit führenden Tierschutzorganisationen die EU auf, tierleidfreie Kosmetik in Europa zu schützen.
BERLIN—Dove und The Body Shop haben sich PETA, Cruelty Free Europe, Humane Society International/Europe, Eurogroup for Animals und ECEAE (die insgesamt 100 Mitgliedsorganisationen aus 26 EU-Mitgliedsstaaten* vertreten) angeschlossen. Schnellstmöglich werden eine Million europäische Bürger*innen
Dove e The Body Shop si uniscono alle principali organizzazioni mondiali per la protezione degli animali e chiedono all'UE di salvare i cosmetici cruelty-free in Europa
Dove e The Body Shop si sono uniti a PETA, Cruelty Free Europe, Humane Society International/Europe, Eurogroup for Animals e l’ECEAE (che rappresentano un totale di 100 organizzazioni di 26 stati membri dell'UE*) per mobilitare urgentemente 1 milione di cittadini europei e salvare i cosmetici
BREAKING: Win for lab animals! European Parliament votes in favour of plan to end animal experiments
BRUSSELS—The European Parliament has adopted a resolution vote calling on the European Commission to establish an EU-wide Action Plan for the active phase out of the use of animals in experiments by defining milestones and targets to incentivise progress in the replacement of animals with non-animal
Z OSTATNIEJ CHWILI: Zwycięstwo dla zwierząt laboratoryjnych! Parlament Europejski głosuje za projektem zakończenia doświadczeń na zwierzętach
BRUKSELA—Parlament Europejski przyjął rezolucję wzywającą Komisję Europejską do ustanowienia unijnego planu działania na rzecz aktywnego odchodzenia od wykorzystywania zwierząt w eksperymentach naukowych poprzez zdefiniowanie etapów i celów pośrednich mających zachęcić do zastępowania zwierząt
Action Plan to transition to animal-free innovation—the concrete way forward
BRUSSELS— The Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals organised an extraordinary meeting on Accelerating the transition to animal-free innovation, in partnership with Eurogroup for Animals and Humane Society International/Europe. This special session featured a roundtable panel debate
Brazil prioritizes animal-free safety assessment of school supplies
RIO DE JANEIRO—Humane Society International is excited to announce that animal-free safety assessment of school supplies is now possible in Brazil. Previously, rats and rabbits were routinely used to test paints, glues and other school supplies. HSI worked together with Brazilian stakeholders to
Experts united to advance non-animal testing methods at major Spanish conference
MADRID—The Spanish Network for Alternative Methods, known as REMA, with Humane World for Animals—formerly known as Humane Society International—and Animal-Free Safety Assessment hosted the XI REMA Conference on Feb. 20, 2025, at the Ministry of Health in Madrid. The conference, honouring the late
XI REMA Konferenz in Madrid: Expert*innen tauschen sich auf der spanischen Veranstaltung über tierversuchsfreie Methoden aus
Madrid/Berlin —Das spanische Netzwerk für alternative Methoden, bekannt als REMA, hat gemeinsam mit Humane World for Animals (ehemals Humane Society International) und Animal-Free Safety Assessment am 20. Februar 2025 im Gesundheitsministerium in Madrid die XI REMA Konferenz veranstaltet. Auf der