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Article Periodic Thank You European Commission issues EU-wide rules on pesticide ingredients

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Like the registration requirement under REACH, this provision has been added to support data sharing for the same substances, to help limit potential data gaps among individual companies and, in turn, decrease the need for resorting to animal testing.

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

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Commission unveils “one substance, one assessment” reform package The Commission has long aspired to realize its one substance, one assessment concept in the EU’s chemical regulatory regime. This also has clear potential to reduce animal testing, another key commitment made by the Commission.

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Everything Wrong with Mouse Studies (Kinda)

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In 2009, a small group of Dutch biologists rounded up some lab mice, stabbed them with needles, and harvested their blood. Mice raised at five different animal facilities in Europe, under otherwise identical conditions , have “persistent differences in body weight” and behavior. Each animal had a different microbiome.

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