The "traffic light coalition" consisting of the Green Party, Liberals and Social democrats, has earmarked one million euros in the budget for 2024 for the development and initial implementation of a strategy to reduce animal testing. Another million has been reserved for subsequent budgets.

Saarland wants to support alternatives to animal testing by awarding a research prize. The prize is now presented for the second time. It is endowed with 10,000 euros and is awarded every two years.

A team of researchers from the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and the U.S. NICEATM (National Toxicology Program Interagency Center for the Evaluation of Alternative Toxicological Methods), together with other colleagues from the U.S., has published a comprehensive database on allergic skin reactions to chemical substances. Information from the database is intended to support the evaluation of results from non-animal methods.

Prof. Dr. Peter Loskill from the Natural and Medical Sciences Institute (NMI) at the University of Tübingen and the Medical Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen has been awarded this year's Herbert Stiller Prize by the animal rights organization Doctors Against Animal Experiments.