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

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 ...

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 ...

For generations, U.S. laboratories treated animal testing as an unquestioned prerequisite for new drugs and chemicals, even as the ethical toll mounted. Now, after centuries of routine cruelty, the ...

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 ...

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, revived a plan created during the first Trump administration to end the testing of chemicals on mammals. By Lisa Friedman The Environmental Protection Agency will ...

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 ...