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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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New Alternative Methodologies and Their Applications in Drug Discovery and Development

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Where possible, NAM s seek to avoid the use of animal testing or at least to reduce it. However, reports drawn up as recently as June 2023 still emphasize the necessity of animal testing at some point as we are still far from understanding and reproducing all the variables present in a whole organism in an in vitro or in silico model.

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Article Periodic Thank You EPA issues new chemicals decision framework to assess eye irritation and corrosion

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The framework supports EPA’s mandate to develop and implement alternative test methods and strategies, or new approach methodologies (NAMs), that do not require vertebrate animal testing for assessing risk of injury to health or the environment. The most recent version of the document listing the categories is from 2010.

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Advanced 3D cell-based technologies

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puts an end to the previous mandate that all drugs need to be tested on animals prior to human clinical trials. Prior to this European Union Parliament, in 2021, voted for animal testing phase out. The US FDA Modernisation Act 2.0.,

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Human neuronal cells: possibilities in drug safety testing

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Our approach to seizure liability screening is especially pertinent in the context of the recent FDA modernization act which allows applicants to use methods other than animal testing to establish drug safety and effectiveness. Microelectrode arrays: a physiologically based neurotoxicity testing platform for the 21st century.

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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.