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EU Motivated Like Never Before To Advance Non-Animal Methods For Chemical Assessment

Substantial scientific advancements and policy changes still are needed to replace animal tests entirely, ECHA says.

 
• By Lauren Nardella

Lack of validated, regulatory-accepted methods for evaluating complex chemical safety endpoints without animal testing is quickly becoming a problem for industries and stakeholders beyond the cosmetics sector. Momentum is building to drive alternatives development as European authorities set their sights on an animal-free chemicals assessment future.

The cosmetics industry has been working to promote development and regulatory acceptance of non-animal methods at least since the EU banned the marketing of cosmetics containing animal-tested cosmetic ingredients in March 2013 “irrespective of the availability of alternative non-animal tests.”

In fact, trade associations in the space have been focused on accelerating the availability of such methods since the early 2000s when the EU’s cosmetic animal testing prohibitions were still being legislated

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