ECHA Notes Gaps In Alternative Test Methods, Stakeholder Viewpoints

A European Chemicals Agency official suggests that alternative methods for assessing or predicting toxicological risks still have a ways to go "before we can dream about a future in an animal test-free world." Other agency reps expressed similar sentiments during an April 18 media briefing.

The market availability of novel non-animal testing technologies and conceptual approaches to toxicity assessment does not necessarily mean that such methods pass muster with regulatory authorities, European Chemical Agency officials noted April 18.

ECHA held a media briefing in advance of an April 19-20 workshop in Helsinki, Finland, on "new approach methodologies in regulatory science," in which it discussed the status of emerging strategies

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