What is the situation with the Iams Company and animal testing?
In 2001, IDA received information that the Iams Company, having been recently acquired by P&G, had been using dogs and cats in very painful and lethal experiments to test the nutritional quality of its foods. The information obtained was horrific and exposed experiments on cats and dogs that caused kidney failure, malnutrition, liver damage, severe allergic reactions, stomach inflammation, diarrhea, skin disorders, lesions, and other painful conditions. Many of the animals died as a result of the experiments, or were killed and dismembered for tissue analysis. P&G was unable to refute that these experiments had taken place since they were clearly published in scientific journals, indicating that Iams was a key sponsor. When IDA presented this information to Iams/P&G for an explanation, the company’s response was to deny that these sorts of experiments were continuing, claiming they were a thing of the past. IDA then attempted to get P&G to sign a Statement of Assurance to promise that
