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Article Periodic Thank You Commission unveils details on plan for phasing out animal testing for chemicals safety

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Commission unveils details on plan for phasing out animal testing for chemicals safety At the REACH and CLP regulators’ meeting in July, the European Commission revealed specifics about its formal schedule to eliminate animal testing used for chemical safety assessment.

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Analysis Chemical Thank You Commission redoubles commitment to reduce animal testing in response to Citizens’ Initiative

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Commission redoubles commitment to reduce animal testing in response to Citizens’ Initiative The European Commission provided its mandatory response to a citizens’ petition this week urging faster action to reduce and ultimately eliminate animal testing within the cosmetics and chemical sectors.

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Analysis Chemical Thank You ECHA issues research wish list to aid in its regulatory endeavors

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The next key area concerns the ongoing shift away from animal testing. For example, under the REACH (1907/2006/EC) and CLP (1272/2008/EC) regulations, NAMs are generally only used to replace animal testing for hazard identification and classification of skin sensitizers.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You FDA finalizes new guidance on nonclinical assessment of potential immunotoxicity

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The guidance looks very different from the draft that was published in February 2020, including changes in the scope of the guidance, its sponsorship, and the removal of all mentions of nonhuman primates for animal testing. Nonclinical studies encompass much more than just animal studies.

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Article Periodic Thank You Commission unveils “one substance, one assessment” reform package

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This also has clear potential to reduce animal testing, another key commitment made by the Commission. The Commission draws an analogy between the restriction and exemption process found in RoHS to the authorization and restriction processes (titles VII and VIII, respectively) found in the REACH Regulation (1907/2006/EC).

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You The 53 regulations that FDA is currently working on

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For example, the FDA does not have a proposed rule listed that would change how it regulates animal testing requirements following the passage of the FDA Modernization Act 2.0 It’s also interesting to see what isn’t on this list. provisions of the Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act (FDORA) in 2022.

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Origins of the Lab Mouse

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Adapted from Yoshiki and Moriwaki (2006). ” It’s an uncharitable take, but when drugs fail as often as they do despite animal testing, it’s not hard to see the JAX mice as a metaphor for a biomedical enterprise cloistered away from the real world. Origins of mice used in research. Image Credit: JAX Handbook.