Agency IQ
JULY 22, 2024
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.
Agency IQ
AUGUST 4, 2023
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.
Agency IQ
NOVEMBER 27, 2023
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.
Codon
JULY 21, 2024
It may seem that if researchers are sufficiently concerned about the welfare of lab animals, the best thing to do would be to stop using animals altogether. However, a multitude of factors—from institutional inertia to a global animal-testing industry worth billions of dollars —make this outcome unlikely.
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