Posted: April 10, 2015 A March 12, 2015 news release by the UK government announced that “testing of household products on animals will be banned.” This new animal testing ban will come into effect in October 2015. It will apply to all finished household products, including “detergents, polishes and cleaning products, laundry products, air fresheners, […]
Industry, small and medium-sized enterprises and academia are coming together, through the NC3Rs CRACK IT program, to solve three challenges faced by the pharmaceutical and chemical industries; all of which should reduce the number of animals used in scientific research. Nine research and development consortia have been awarded up to £100,000 each, as part of […]
Posted: February 13, 2015 The exponential proliferation of biomedical data in scientific literature and public databases make systematic reviews more necessary than ever. At the same time, a corresponding proliferation of powerful computing aids to search, aggregate, and evaluate this literature make systematic reviews increasingly thorough and useful. In the field of toxicology especially, systematic […]
Posted: February 6, 2015 In an effort to help expand the acceptance of alternative methods for acute toxicity testing, EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs has released a new draft guidance document. The agency is accepting comments on the draft guidance for 60 days, until March 10, 2015. With the rapid advances in science and continual […]
This article appeared in the January 2015 issue of the NIEHS newsletter, Environmental Factor and is reprinted here with permission. Posted: January 15, 2015 Finding alternatives to animal testing Federal agencies work to reduce the use of animals in research and testing. Methods that use fewer or no animals, or that reduce animal pain and […]
Editor’s note: ECHA’s Tiiu Bräutigam interviewed Robert Landsiedel (BASF, Germany) and Wim de Jong (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, the Netherlands) for this article in the December issue of the ECHA Newsletter. Our thanks to ECHA for permission to republish the article for AltTox readers. You can read the entire December issue, […]
Almost £400,000 has been awarded across four research projects working to better understand the basic biology of human asthma – without the use of traditional mammalian models. The latest of the NC3Rs strategic award schemes has challenged scientists to approach asthma research questions in a completely novel way, encouraging them to seek alternatives to the […]
Published: November 25, 2014 On October 27, 2014, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) published a short article titled “Clarity on interface between REACH and the Cosmetics Regulation” (ECHA/NA/14/46). The ECHA clarification, in full, was the following: “To meet the requirements of the new Cosmetics Regulation (Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009) cosmetic products are prohibited to be […]
Posted: October 15, 2014 Peggy Cunniff, President of the International Foundation for Ethical Research (IFER), and Peter O’Donovan, Executive Director of IFER, announced this week the funding of three new graduate fellowships, and the renewal of three fellowships awarded in previous years. The awards are based on recommendations of the IFER Scientific Advisory Board following […]
