PETA donates $1million to help find animal testing alternatives
Posted By Stephanie Tripp on July 6, 2011
This move follows two new grants awarded to researchers and aims to benefit chemical and personal care companies with non-animal methods.
“Funding research for non-animal testing methods is one of our most vital campaigns,” says Jessica Sandler, director of PETA’s Regulatory Testing Division.
“The more modern, non-animal testing methods we have, the fewer the animals who will suffer and die in archaic and irrelevant tests.”
Further grants
Through the McGrath Family Foundation of San Diego, which supports PETA’s efforts to replace animals in laboratories with modern alternatives, PETA has given a $62,000 grant to the International QSAR Foundation to support the acceptance of an alternative to carcinogenicity testing for drug development, cosmetics ingredients, and chemical testing.
In addition, PETA UK, one of PETA’s overseas affiliates-is giving a $130,000 grant to CRO CeeTox for the validation of a non-animal skin allergy test that is commonly used to test cosmetics.
PETA claims that in the current animal tests, 32 to 80 guinea pigs or 16 to 60 mice have chemical substances repeatedly smeared onto their skins or injected into their bodies.
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