After discussions with PETA, General Motors upgrades its animal testing policy. The automaker had previously barred car-crash tests on animals in 1993 after an 18-month PETA campaign but hadn’t expressly prohibited paying others to conduct them in its behalf until now.

Additionally, following a 21-month PETA campaign exposing a deadly test on pigs funded by Ford Motor Company, the automaker bans the conducting, funding, and commissioning of animal tests; requires vendors and subcontractors to avoid animal experiments; and clarifies that external university research must abide by this policy.