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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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Rapid delivery of toxicological material

Drug Target Review

However, developing an accelerated IND application requires that good laboratory practice (GLP) toxicological data must be generated, collected, interpreted and integrated in the IND-enabling data package. FDA no longer has to require animal testing for new drugs. References: 1 Wadman M.

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Analysis Chemical Thank You Explainer: carcinogen classification in the E.U., U.S., and internationally

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BY RAYAN BHARGAVA, MSCAUG 16, 2023 10:33 AM CDT International: World Health Organization The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classification framework is particularly well-known , consisting of four levels of increasing certainty regarding human cancer risk. European Union The E.U.

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Article FDA Thank You FDA proposes first update to orthopedic device coating guidance since 1990s

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Further, the agency issued guidance in 2021 on peripheral vascular atherectomy devices that focused, in part, on concerns about coating integrity (and coating particulate testing), and has contracted research on long-term effects of other coating materials.

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Article Periodic Thank You At conference, ECHA calls for regulatory coherence, collaboration to achieve green and digital transition

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At conference, ECHA calls for regulatory coherence, collaboration to achieve green and digital transition Last week, EU chemicals regulator ECHA brought together experts from industry, government, civil society, research, and academia to discuss the future of EU chemicals regulation.

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Article EMA Thank You New guidance provides definition for orphan device, offers alternative trial designs

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Other work packages for the ODTF include information about clinical evidence for this device type, conditional certification, and the use of registries to support conformity assessment. Some of these are laboratory and animal tests, cadaveric studies and data from similar devices.

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A therapy candidate for fatal prion diseases turns off disease-causing gene

Broad Institute

There are currently no treatments, but researchers from the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed an approach that could one day be used to turn off the gene encoding this protein throughout the brain to treat or even prevent prion disease.

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