Cosmetics Europe Reflects On WC10, Alternative Testing Landscape

Conversation at the 10th World Congress on Alternatives and Animals in the Life Sciences shifted from questions of how alternative test data can be generated to what existing data mean from a systemic biology standpoint and how they might be applied in chemical safety assessments. Cosmetics Europe's Rob Taalman discusses.

Scientist

Innovative alternative testing methods and associated data have proliferated in a world increasingly free of cosmetic animal testing, but questions remain about how such data relate to human biology and how they might be applied in safety assessments required for new ingredients.

In an Aug. 29 interview, Rob Taalman, science and research director at trade group Cosmetics Europe, offered his outlook on the alternative testing landscape following the 10th World Congress on...

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