Agency IQ

JUNE 28, 2024

New guidance provides definition for orphan device, offers alternative trial designs New guidance from the European Commission outlines alternatives for full pre-market clinical trials for orphan devices, defined by the Commission for the first time.

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Agency IQ

JUNE 7, 2024

Almost 10 years late, the new framework’s arrival will represent significant changes in the regulation of these pesticide substances. Active substances that have been approved for use in the EU are listed in the Annex of Regulation (EU) No 540/2011; currently, approximately 450 entries are listed.

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Agency IQ

AUGUST 18, 2023

and internationally Establishing and communicating a substance’s potential to cause cancer is a cornerstone of chemical regulation worldwide. Many entries in category 2B are only weakly associated with carcinogenicity and are generally unlikely to be regulated for causing cancer. For more on the regulation of glyphosate in the E.U.,

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Agency IQ

JANUARY 12, 2024

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. EPA proposed updates to New Chemicals Regulations under TSCA in May 2023.

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Agency IQ

JANUARY 19, 2024

With the publication of three proposed legal acts, this concept is one step closer to streamlining the way the bloc regulates chemicals. The ensuing Chemicals Strategy expounded upon the 1S1A concept further, presenting it as the definitive approach to heighten the efficiency, consistency, and transparency of European chemical regulation.

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Agency IQ

JUNE 9, 2023

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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Agency IQ

MARCH 7, 2024

billion in “definite user fees.” Further, the agency would need to make a separate table finding “at least $8,500,000,” for cosmetics regulation implementation ($7 million of that) and work on finding alternatives to animal testing ($1.5 the Congressionally funded portion of the FDA’s total budget) level.

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