The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is taking two key steps to eliminate animal testing. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expanding its list of “cutting-edge” alternative ...

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 ...

Several mice sit in a plastic container on a shelf with food pellets and a water bottle overhead and sawdust beneath them. Mice in a laboratory. The European Union published a roadmap this week on ...

The European Commission has adopted a roadmap to phase out the use of animals in chemical safety assessments, including for pharmaceuticals. The plan, published on 1 June, describes how animal testing ...

Many products that Americans use every day — from makeup to sunscreens — are tested on animals for safety. But experts say the safety data can be gathered using more modern methods that don’t involve ...

“The FDA’s animal testing requirement will be reduced, refined, or potentially replaced using a range of approaches,” the agency said, including AI-based computational models about how toxic a ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed guidance to reduce the need for animal testing in the development of oncology drugs as part of its broader efforts to reduce animal testing in ...